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Hace 5 días · Interactive Sunstone Experience. Get to the heart of the Aztec Sunstone (also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone)! This interactive feature, designed exclusively for Mexicolore by Mexican new media specialist Ana Laura Landa, contains detailed information on the Sunstone using interactive graphics. (Written/compiled by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore ...
Hace 2 días · Aztec migration and empire The ancestors of the Aztecs (“Aztec” will refer here generically to several cultural groups who inhabited the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico during the 13th through 16th centuries, and spoke variations of Nahuatl.This is imperfect but will avoid lengthy digressions) migrated into the basin of Mexico from a place their oral histories refer to as Aztlan.
Hace 4 días · TONALLI: one’s name, shadow, destiny and consciousness, the force of will and intelligence, that shapes one’s character, the body’s double. • Most important of the three in terms of being the mechanism by which gods and humans accomplish their actions in the world. • In Nahuatl the word means to irradiate, to ‘make warm with sun ...
Hace 5 días · Welcome to the Aztecs* at Mexicolore! We are a small, independent, specialist, artefact-based teaching team providing in-school interactive history workshops on the Mexica (Aztecs) and the Maya. Since 1980 we’ve made over 3,500 visits to schools and museums throughout England. We believe we’re now the longest-running peripatetic teaching ...
Hace 4 días · Welcome to our Aztec Health section. It launched in November 2007 with a double feature on Aztec herbal medicine prepared by Corrinne Burns, Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University. We’re honoured too to have a concise introduction to this field written specially for us by Professor Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, Professor Emeritus ...
Hace 2 días · Mexica (Aztec) Human Sacrifice: New Perspectives Following the important and ongoing archaeological excavations of the Aztecs’ sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan during 2016-17, we are delighted to be able to offer a succinct and detailed study of some of the main conclusions to be drawn, with this fine article kindly written specially for us by two leading bioarchaeologists working at the ...
Hace 3 días · Basic Aztec facts: AZTEC BURIALS. The Aztecs believed in 13 ‘heavens’ and 9 ‘underworlds’ - where you ended up depended more on how you died than on how you lived. Most took a (4-year) trip down to Mictlan, the end of the line. On the journey there were 9 dangerous stops... (Written by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore) Assuming you died a natural ...
