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  2. Aztec codex - Wikipedia

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    Codex Azcatitlan, a pictorial history of the Aztec empire, including images of the conquest; Codex Aubin is a pictorial history or annal of the Aztecs from their departure from Aztlán, through the Spanish conquest, to the early Spanish colonial period, ending in 1608. Consisting of 81 leaves, it is two independent manuscripts, now bound together.

  3. Codex Borbonicus - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Borbonicus is one of a very few Aztec codices that survived the colonial Spanish inquisition. When the Spanish conquistadors (led by Hernán Cortés) entered Aztec cities, they would often find libraries filled with thousands of native works. [2] However, most of the works were destroyed during the conquest as a means to hasten the ...

  4. Bible translations into Uto-Aztecan languages - Wikipedia

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    The Bible is being translated into the Pipil or Nawat language, spoken by a minority in El Salvador. This translation is being done by Alan R. King, a linguist with "Ne Bibliaj Tik Nawat". The Bible is being translated from the original languages. The New Testament is complete, and work is ongoing on the Old Testament.

  5. Mesoamerican religion - Wikipedia

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    The Aztecs abandoned their rites and merged their own religious beliefs with Catholicism, whereas the relatively autonomous Maya kept their religion as the core of their beliefs and incorporated varying degrees of Catholicism. [6] The Aztec village religion was supervised by friars, mainly Franciscan. Prestige and honor in the village were ...

  6. 500 años fregados pero cristianos - Wikipedia

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    What if the Aztecs had conquered Spain? How the Spaniards mistook the Chinese civilization for the Mexican; On human sacrifices; On the Christianisation of the Natives; On the kind and Christian things made in the New World; The spiritual conquest; the first step toward perpetual underdevelopment; On the so-called "Holy" Inquisition

  7. Five Suns - Wikipedia

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    The Aztecs believed that the gods created the universe at Teotihuacan. The name Teōtīhuacān was given by the Nahuatl -speaking Aztecs centuries after the fall of the city around 550 CE. The term has been glossed as "birthplace of the gods", or "place where gods were born", [ 3 ] reflecting Nahua creation myths that were said to occur in ...

  8. Codex Boturini - Wikipedia

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    Codex Boturini, also known as the Tira de la Peregrinación de los Mexica (Tale of the Mexica Migration), is an Aztec codex, which depicts the migration of the Azteca, later Mexica, people from Aztlán. Its date of manufacture is unknown, but likely to have occurred before or just after the Conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521). At least ...

  9. Codex Fejérváry-Mayer - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Fejérváry-Mayer is an Aztec Codex of central Mexico. It is one of the rare Native American manuscripts that have survived the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. As a typical calendar codex tonalamatl dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar – the tonalpohualli – it is placed in the Borgia Group. It is a divinatory almanac in 17 ...