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Where is Aztec Religion start and end

How was Aztec religion started/drawn from its area?

Syncretic religion, adopting other groups’ deities (like the Toltecs) (some aspects of…)

wildlife and crops affecting religion

Modern Aztec influence:

the Modern Hopi:

James, Susan E. “Some Aspects of the Aztec Religion in the Hopi Kachina Cult.” Journal of the Southwest, vol. 42, no. 4, 2000, pp. 897–926. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40170157. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.

- frequent trade between Aztecs and American southwest (turquoise, buffalo hide, ect)

-music of corn grinding songs traveled north as well. Ballcourts in Arizona. Mounts in San Pedro all suggest cultural exchange from Mesoamerica

-uto-Aztecan between Aztec in Hopi

- drought and dramatic weather from 1250-1470 AD led to many Aztecs moving north into American southwest

-Aztecs moving to valley of Mexico is wandering “home” to legendary area of Aztlan (maybe driven out by drought)

-similar calendar ideas, agriculturally centered, deities, songs, linguistic patterns, etc

The Pueblo

Parsons, Elsie Clews. “Some Aztec and Pueblo Parallels.” American Anthropologist, vol. 35, no. 4, 1933, pp. 611–31. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/661936. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.


 * impersonation of gods by priests or for a year by somebody going to be sacrificed vs Pueblo war captains being war gods
 * supernatural cause of disease and expectation of priests to fix it
 * blood sacrifice

Modern Nahua religion


 * how has it changed?