This is the second part of Eduard Seler’s study on Nahua religious chants, focusing on chants 11 through 20 preserved in the manuscript by Juan Bautista Pomar. Seler offers a philological analysis and German translation ...

This review analyzes Mark Z. Christensen’s work, which compares colonial Christianity among Nahua and Maya communities through religious texts in native languages. Christensen argues that colonial Catholicism was not ...

In this article I study the symbolisms of fertility, procreation and abundance attributed to monkey among ancient Nahuas, which were projected toward the farm and human spheres. In an outstanding way, the figure of monkey ...

This review by Ignacio De la Garza Gálvez analyzes Miccacuicatl by Patrick Johansson, which explores the funerary rites of Mexica lords through historical sources, myths, and ritual chants. It highlights the integration ...

While anthropology has attempted to analyze the point of view of the native, the Nahua narrative has been particularly interested in discerning the perspective of the table companion, whose points of view play a relevant ...

This article offers a new interpretation of an indigenous war that the Aztecs called “Flowery War” (xochiyaoyotl). Existing approaches are questioned to propose that the Flowery War corresponds to an Amerindian war model ...

In the Sierra de Texcoco, bread is the principal food offering in the Day of the Dead altars. When this ritual concludes, however, bread represents a way of communication with the dead throughout the annual cycle, when ...

De las diferentes plantas empleadas por los antiguos nahuas como alucinógenas y catalogadas por Sahagún en el llamado Códice Florentino, Alfredo López Austin presenta algunas

En las fuentes documentales del siglo XVI, en especial los trabajos de Sahagún y sus colaboradores nahuas, se hallan valiosas informaciones sobre ciertas prácticas, algunas de carácter ritual, que acompañaron a las mujeres ...

"El sistema de escritura empleado por los antiguos nahuas ha sido estudiado desde varias perspectivas, generando hipótesis y teorías muy divergentes entre sí. En este artículo se contextualiza y explica la propuesta hecha ...