We know the name of an average of 35 Aztec dignitaries, as well as their role in the war, justice and the embassies. The article wants to show that, as this society did not provide a separation between politics and religion, ...

"This article focuses on the iconographic study of a sculptural piece from the archaeological site of Calixtlahuaca, State of Mexico, which is associated with the religious numen known as Cihua-coatl, whose main attributes ...

This article analyzes the faunal remains recovered in Offering 125, a ritual deposit found to the west of the Tlaltecuhtli monolith. Taxonomic identification of the zoological species and the areas of origin will shed ...

This article examines the mathematical and calendrical systems used by the Mexica to regulate periods of religious penance. Based on codices, ritual chronologies, and ethnographic accounts, the author shows that penitential ...

This article offers a critical analysis of Moctezuma II, the last fully sovereign huey tlatoani of the Mexica Empire before the arrival of the Spaniards. Isabel Bueno Bravo reviews the various historical and literary ...

This article deals with a tepetlacalli or stone casket produced in the Basin of Mexico at the end of the Postclassic period. The article discusses the functions and meanings of stone caskets in Central Mexico and offers ...

This article examines ritual decapitation among the Mexica and other Mesoamerican peoples as a symbolic form of castration, interpreted through a gendered lens. Using iconographic, archaeological, and historical sources, ...

The seat is a recognized attribute of royal power in ancient Mexico, but has been little studied its role in rituals. The paper shows that several Mexica ceremonies were dedicated to representing the production of seats ...

"This article examines the tlacotli based on the analysis of documentary sources of the 16th and 17th centuries. Their profile is presented: the ways in which indigenous people acquired that condition; their rights and ...

"This paper analyzes the two existing versions in the sources on the period that extends from the Mexica defeat and the expulsion from Chapultepec, to the arrival of Acamapichtli in México-Tenochtitlan. The first of them, ...