Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, Vol. 48
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Venus más allá de las tablas astronómicas. Una relectura de las láminas 53-54 del Códice Borgia
(2014)This article has two objectives: to analyze the sheets 53 and 54 of the Codex Borgia and review the arguments offered by Eduard Seler in his classic 1898 article, in which he interprets that section as a table of Venus ... -
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Códice de Coyoacán. Matrícula de tributos, edición de Miguel León-Portilla, México, Centro de Investigaciones y Documentación Histórica y Cultural de Coyoacán, 2014, 35 p.+facsímil.
(2014)Xavier Noguez reviews the facsimile edition of the Codex of Coyoacán, a mid-16th-century Nahua pictographic manuscript related to colonial tribute systems. The codex, of a legal-administrative nature, records tribute paid ... -
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El Mapa de Popotla y las copias vienesas
(2014)There are four copies of Popotla’s Map; two are in México and two in Vienna. Between them there are small differences of content, but Viennese preserving copies allowed to appreciate little nuances that were lost in the ... -
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Jesucristo, “pontífice de los bienes futuros”. Un sermón en náhuatl de fray Bernardino de Sahagún
(2014)This paper explores discursive strategies used by fray Bernardino de Sahagun regarding prohibition of pre-Hispanic human sacrifice in a Nahuatl language written sermon, which deals on Christ sacrifice and his figure as ... -
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Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Grandes hallazgos de la arqueología, Editorial Tusquests, México, 2013
(2014)This review by Sara Ladrón de Guevara explores Eduardo Matos Moctezuma’s book Grandes hallazgos de la arqueología, which examines five monumental tombs from ancient civilizations: Egypt, China, Monte Albán, Palenque, and ... -
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Los cantos religiosos de los antiguos mexicanos [segunda parte, cantos 11 a 20]
(2014)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 ... -
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La adivinación por medio del maíz
(2014)All peoples of the world have tried, through various techniques which can be described as magical, predict the future, determine the cause of misfortunes or illness, as well as locate missing persons or objects. The ... -
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Las ayauhcalli en el ciclo de las veintenas del año solar. Funciones y ubicación de las casas de niebla y sus relaciones con la liturgia del maíz
(2014)This article focuses on the study of ayauhcalli (mist houses) sanctuaries in the liturgy of the solar year of ancient Nahuatl. The text seeks to offer, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of all the data contained ... -
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Tonalli, naturaleza fría y personalidad temerosa: el susto entre los nahuas del siglo XVI
(2014)The objective of this work is to present the susto disease complex among the ancient Nahuas, a condition originating from a sudden experience of fear that caused one of the body's animus entities, the tonalli, to abandon ...