Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, Vol. 56
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El náhuatl de la Crónica mexicana
(2018)The Crónica mexicana was supposedly written by Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc in Spanish, around 1598. It tells the story of the Mexica from their departure from Aztlan until the arrival of the Spaniards. The text of the ... -
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¿Por qué los topónimos México y Chapultepec tienen acento en la primera y en la última sílaba?
(2018)According to grammars from the 16th and 17th Centuries no syllable in Nauatl words was pronounced more forcefully than other syllables in the same word. However, speakers of Nauatl differentiated long vowels from short ... -
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¿Religión o religiones mesoamericanas?
(2018)In this classic essay, Alfonso Caso reflects on the complexity of the Mesoamerican religious system. He challenges the notion of a unified "Mesoamerican religion" and instead proposes speaking of “Mesoamerican religions”, ... -
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Atravesando los portales: telas, libros y procedimientos adivinatorios en el México central prehispánico
(2018)The aim of this article is to contribute to the understanding of how calendrical-religious codices were used as divinatory instruments, along with other procedures that fulfilled the same function, among them, the divination ... -
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La fluidez del género en el tlacauhtli: el Mapa de Cholula de 1581
(2018)The configuration of “what surround us”, conceptualized as “space” in Western thought, is conceived differently in the Nahua system of thinking under the idea of tlacauhtli. A characteristic of tlacauhtli is to be constructed ...
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