Miguel León-Portilla
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Miguel León-Portilla was a Mexican anthropologist and historian, specializing in Aztec culture and literature of the pre-Columbian and colonial eras. Many of his works were translated to English and h
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Ōmeteōtl
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Ōmeteōtl is a name used to refer to the pair of Aztec deities Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, also known as Tōnacātēcuhtli and Tonacacihuatl. Ōme translates as "two" or "dual" in Nahuatl and teōtl transla
Miguel León-Portilla
…searching about it. León-Portilla stated that, what Europeans understood as many gods, Aztecs, in fact perceived those many gods as a single entity called Ometeotl/Omecihuatl (Our Lord/Our Lady of Duality). This thesis was later extended in "Pensamiento y cultura azteca: estudio de la mente antigua náhuatl" (In…
Tonacacíhuatl and Tonacatecuhtli as depicted in the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl described in the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
Tonacateuchtli as depicted in the Codex Borgia
Tonacacihuatl as depicted in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis