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Photo byFæIn 2005, Argentina’s indigenous population numbered about 600,329; this figure includes 457,363 people who self-identified as belonging to an indigenous ethnic group and 142,966 who identified themselves as first-generation « Continue »
Quetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and means “Feathered serpent”. The worship of a feathered serpent is first known documented in Teotihuacan in the first century BCE or first century CE. « Continue »
Photo byIlhuicaminaThe demise of Mexico’s enigmatic pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan stemmed from a conflict among the civilisation’s elite classes, with buildings set ablaze in the clash, according to a study. The famed pyramids of the « Continue »
Photo byin pulverem reverterisAztec art played an important role in ancient Aztec culture. The Importance of Music and Dance in the Aztec Culture. The Aztec culture and religion tied music and dance into its daily life and ceremonies. Certain musical « Continue »
Photo bygripso_banana_pruneThe Aztec people had a very rigid and well-defined society. As the Aztec empire grew, these calpulli tribes gradually became political divisions within Tenochtitlan. Within each calpulli, the Aztec people chose four chief « Continue »
Photo by Xuan Che With them sacrificing humans, the Aztecs seemed barbaric and uncivilized; however history should say that the Aztecs had a very creative and organized empire. The Aztecs had high demands for its people, were highly religious, and « Continue »
Photo by Internet Archive Book Images To understand how children fit into the Aztec culture, and how they were honored, we should go right back to the beginning even before the children were born. The evidence points that Aztec parents loved « Continue »
Aztec dancer (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Music, song, and dance were all extremely important in Aztec culture. Interestingly, there is no Nahuatl word that translates directly as “music.” Instead, the Aztecs called it cuicatlamatiliztli, which « Continue »
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Aztecs worshiped a broad pantheon of deities, and their god of death was known as Mictlantecuhtli. The Aztecs believed he ruled the Mictlan, or the Aztec underworld. They believed that the remains of humans were « Continue »
Patecatl, God of Pulque (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Scientists took more than 300 pottery shards from the ancient Aztec city of Teotihuacan and ground them into a powder in order to better study what the pottery contained. After scanning the powder « Continue »