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Nacimiento Mountains, a mountain range in the northwestern part of the US state of New Mexico; Cerro del Nacimiento, a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina; Nacimiento Formation, a Paleocene-age rock unit in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico; Nacimiento River, in California; Lake Nacimiento, in California
Neapolitan presepio at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh Detail of an elaborate Neapolitan presepio in Rome. In the Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche (/ k r ɛ ʃ / or / k r eɪ ʃ /), or in Italian presepio or presepe, or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmas season, of art objects representing the birth ...
[4] [5] The tradition was begun by Spanish evangelists to teach the Christmas story to the Indigenous people and ostensibly to supplant the rituals related to the birth of the god Huitzilopochtli. [1] [4] Today, they are usually performed in rural areas and the lower-class neighborhoods of cities. The first part consists of a procession.
The Nacimiento Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in the San Juan Basin of western New Mexico (United States). [1] It has an age of 61 to 65.7 million years, corresponding to the early and middle Paleocene .
The Sierra Nacimiento (official name [1]), or Nacimiento Mountains, are a mountain range in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico. They are just west of the more prominent Jemez Mountains near the town of Cuba , and are separated from them by the Río Guadalupe and the Río de Las Vacas.
The Nativity or birth of Jesus Christ is found in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Roman-controlled Judea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.
The name “Niño Pa” is a hybrid of the Spanish word for “child” (niño) and the Nahuatl word for “place” (pan) meaning “child of the place.” It is said that this image goes about at night to visit people in their dreams and to check the crops of the community. Some claim to have found mud on the image's shoes in the morning. [4]
Fort Nativity (Spanish: El Fuerte de Nacimiento) is a fort founded by Governor Alonso de Ribera on 24 December 1603 at Nacimiento, Chile, [1] roughly 550 km (350 miles) south of Santiago in what is now the central part of Chile.