{"id":2052,"date":"2020-10-22T23:13:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T23:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:56:42","slug":"time-and-death-in-aztec-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/time-and-death-in-aztec-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Time and death in the Aztec Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
Robert Diaz<\/a>. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P]<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

For the ancient inhabitants of the great Tenochtitlan, dualities, as we know them today, did not exist as such; for example, a difference would have to be made between life and existence. Existence -nemiliztl<\/em>In the Nahuatl language, it would correspond to the night-time part that begins at birth: tlacatiliztli<\/em>and it ends with death -miquiztli<\/em>-that is, that death only represented a dark phase in which the life cycle began to renew itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

         Death was, for them, only a moment of organic and functional relaxation that prepared a new existence, but this can only be understood by giving a brief review of the way the Mexicas saw time: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0After four times full of chaos in which life did not progress, the fifth sun arrived,\u00a0nahui ollin<\/em>whose original legend says that the gods met in\u00a0Tehotihuac\u00e1n<\/em>\u00a0to create the sun and the moon. It was necessary for this purpose that one of those present, sacrificed himself. Since no one answered a bubbly, little, ugly god called\u00a0Nanahuatzin<\/em>\u00a0stood up to offer himself and in response, the arrogant god\u00a0Tecucizt\u00e9catl<\/em>Lord of the Snails, also offered his life for him to create the stars. The gods gave him preference, but despite trying four times, he was afraid. Instead,\u00a0Nanahuatzin<\/em>\u00a0on the first attempt he courageously threw himself into the bonfire of the creative fire from which the Sun, personified by him, would be born and the Moon by\u00a0Tecucizt\u00e9catl<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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