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Purépecha architecture is noted for step pyramids in the shape of the letter "T". Pre-Columbian Purépecha artisans made feather mosaics that extensively used hummingbird feathers, which were highly regarded as luxury goods throughout the region. During the Pre-Colonial era, the Purépecha kingdom engaged in conflict with the Aztecs.
The Purépecha Empire, also known by the term Iréchikwa, was a polity in pre-Columbian Mexico. Its territory roughly covered the geographic area of the present-day Mexican state of Michoacán , as well as parts of Guanajuato , Guerrero , and Jalisco .
Purépecha (autonym: Pʼurhépecha [pʰuˈɽepet͡ʃa] or Phorhé(pecha)), often called Tarascan (Spanish: Tarasco), a term coined by Spanish settlers that can be seen as pejorative, [2] is a language isolate or small language family that is spoken by some 140,000 Purépecha in the highlands of Michoacán, Mexico.
Purépecha copper and brass objects in the site museum. Tzintzuntzan was the capital of the Purépecha Empire when the Spanish arrived in 1522. [7] As these people did not leave written records, what we know of this city and its empire come from Spanish writings and archeological evidence.
When researchers surveyed the ruins of a Purépecha Empire city in Mexico the old-fashioned way a decade ago, it took them two seasons to explore two square kilometres. Good thing they decided to ...
Guided by their ancestral lunar calendar, members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group celebrated their own New Year’s Eve — a little differently than the West’s traditional New Year.
The culture of the Purépecha people was polytheist. List of some deities: Curicaueri - sun god (victory god) Cuerauáperi - Creation goddess; Xarátanga - Water god; Cuitzeo - war god; Auicamine - Evil goddess; Pehuame - Birth goddess (advocation of Cuerauáperi) Jurhiata - (advocation of Curicaveri)
The Purépecha people dominated a large territory that included areas within the modern-day States of Michoacán, Guanajuato, Querétaro, part of Jalisco, and Guerrero. They were an indomitable race that resisted the onslaught of the Aztecs, who could never dominate them, but who, due to their astronomical predictions, voluntarily submitted to ...