Aztec Mythology Archive
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - From the beginning of human history, water has held a significant role in people's belief systems. Long ago, they realized that they couldn't live
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Domestication of wheat in Mesopotamia and rice in India and China laid the foundation for the Neolithic revolution in Europe and Asia. Centeotl
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Aztec Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - No doubt, Tezcatlipoca ('Lord оf thе Smоking Mirror') was one of the most powerful deities of pre-Columbian Mexico. Tezcatlipoca "Lord of the Night
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Aztec Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Huehueteotl may be one of the earliest gods in the Aztec mythology, but he was not added the Aztec pantheon, until these people arrived
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Aztecs had nothing in common with ancient Greeks, or did they? When we read about these two ancient civilizations it seems quickly clear
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Aztec Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Although the Aztecs had several creation myths, perhaps the most widely known is the story of the five suns, including the Earth-Sun, the Wind
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Aztec and Maya mythology, the Underworld (Xibalba for the Maya and Mictlan for the Aztecs) played an important role. In the beliefs of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among the main sculptures that have come to us from the ancient Nahuatl culture is Xochipilli, the 'Lord of Flowers'. Scholars believe that the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Aztec mythology, Patecatl is a god of healing and fertility. He is also the 'lord of the root of pulque,' the oldest alcoholic
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located in the Toluca Valley of highland central Mexico, Calixtlahuaca is one of the few Aztec-related urban sites, of which architecture and stone
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