Nahua religion

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Nahua religion is the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican belief system of the Nahua peoples, centered on a complex pantheon of deities, ritual sacrifice, and cosmological cycles of creation and destruction.

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Nahua religion canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican religion
religion
associatedEmpire Aztec Empire
centralMyth Five Suns cosmogony
coreArea Central Mexico
documentedIn Codex Borbonicus
Codex Borgia
Codex Mendoza
Florentine Codex
hasConcept cosmological cycles of creation and destruction
debt-payment to the gods
multiple soul components
sacred warfare (xochiyaoyotl)
teotl (sacred energy)
tonalli (animating force)
hasCosmologyElement layered heavens
multiple world ages
sun cycles
underworld Mictlan
hasDeity Centeotl
Chalchiuhtlicue
Coatlicue
Coyolxauhqui
Ehecatl
Huitzilopochtli
Mictecacihuatl
Mictlantecuhtli
Quetzalcoatl
Tezcatlipoca
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
Tlaloc
Tlaltecuhtli
Tlazolteotl
Tonatiuh
Xipe Totec
Xiuhtecuhtli
Xochipilli
Xochiquetzal
hasPantheonType polytheism
hasPractice agricultural fertility rites
bloodletting
calendar rituals
divination
ritual sacrifice
hasPriesthood tlamacazque (priests)
linked to: tlamacazqui
hasRitualCenter Templo Mayor
Tenochtitlan
hasRitualCycle New Fire ceremony
veintena festivals
hasRitualObject copal incense
obsidian blades
paper offerings
turquoise and feather regalia
hasSacrificeType animal sacrifice
auto-sacrifice
human sacrifice
hasSpecialist tonalpouhqui (day-keepers)
linked to: Tonalpohualli
influencedBy earlier Mesoamerican religions
practicedBy Nahua peoples
linked to: Nahua
region Mesoamerica
sacredLanguage Classical Nahuatl
timePeriod Postclassic Mesoamerica
pre-Columbian era
usesCalendar tonalpohualli
xiuhpohualli

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Tonantzin religiousTradition Nahua religion