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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 445–446.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of the sacred in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, all of which were interrelated through ritual action: teotl (god), teixiptla (skin, or localized embodiment, of a teotl ), and tlaquimilloli (bundle of a teotl ’s relics). The book’s introduction examines the “spectrum of animacy” (195...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (1): 148–149.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., throughout everything, at the essential level of all things, there is a power, energy, life-force, called teotl . Yet it is not something that exists, it is continually becoming. Rather than being polytheistic, having many gods (which they did), Maffie sees the Aztecs as pantheistic, because the story...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in the Nahuatl column.
Ironically, in place of allusions to the Christian God are several unam-
biguous references to Cortés (and other Spaniards) in the Nahuatl-language
text as a teotl or sacred being, a type of man-god. The text does not refer
to any indigenous people, even the highest-ranking lords...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 473–494.
Published: 01 October 2023
... It is also not a coincidence that the Nahuatl refers to both ethnic Others as gods or deities, using the word teotl as a descriptor. Teotl not only denotes a sense of divinity, or those considered representatives of the divine, like its Spanish counterpart; it also connotes a sense of wonder and awe...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 January 2022
... Cultura Económica . Olivier Guilhem . 2019 . “ Teotl and Diablo: Indigenous and Christian Conceptions of Gods and Devils in the Florentine Codex .” In The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico , edited by Peterson Jeannette Favrot...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 167–190.
Published: 01 April 2021
... form of the noun teotl , since bearing disease was a specific power associated with teteo in Mesoamerica. Teotl was most often translated into Spanish as “god,” but recent research has shed light on the wide semantic range of the Nahuatl term to include concepts such as powerful, fearsome, violent...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 July 2020
... . Teotl and Ixiptlatli. Some Central Concepts in Ancient Mexican Religion . Copenhagen : Munskgaard . Kartunnen Frances . 1992 . An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press . Klor de Alva Jorge . 1988 . “ Sahagún and the Birth of Modern Ethnography...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 495–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
... encoded deities’ names and scopes of action (Dehouve 2020 ). According to Loïc Vauzelle ( 2018 : 205–7), the pronunciation of deities’ names along with providing their imixiptlahuan with appropriate “attributes” channeled divine essence ( teotl ) into the material, embodied form. Since proper...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 383–406.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Austin 1993 : 128–29). For Maffie, such antagonized, mutually generating entities are at their root different aspects of teotl (divine force), and their continual struggle is the pattern generated by these forces as they manifest themselves in the world (2014: 137–38, 140). As a force originating...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 407–443.
Published: 01 July 2007
... been equated.
The use and abuse of Manitou are reminiscent of the Nahua and
Quechua words that allegedly attributed divinity to Spanish conquista-
dors. The Nahua word teotl does not mean “god,” though it can have spiri-
tual connotations. More often it is used to indicate...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 223–248.
Published: 01 April 2019
... conquistadors as soiled gods likely derives from Mexica associations with blackened deities. Alfredo López Austin notes that there was a clear relationship between darkness and holiness and that the Nahuatl word teotl , which translates as god or sacred essence, also refers in some cases to blackness (López...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 329–355.
Published: 01 April 2014
... “temple” from teotl (divinity), calli (house), and tecpan
(palace). It is thought likely that in these areas the now lost altepetl temple
complexes were to be found.15
338 Barbara E. Mundy
In addition to the historic events and the religious...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 441–463.
Published: 01 July 2018
...: Nehuatl nixomoco, nicipactonal. Tla xihualhuian In anmamacuiltonaleque. Ma tlazal cuaitl 107 xichualtocati. Ma iciuhca, ma huallauh in teotl, imacehualtzin itlachihualtzin. I am Oxomoco, I am Cipactonal. Please come macuiltonaleque . May he be expelled, go and pursue the tip [of the head] here. Come...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 683–706.
Published: 01 October 2015
... the same maize and other foodstuffs that she bodied forth.
In sum, most extant colonial sources indicate that the pre-Columbian
festival of Huey Tozoztli was remembered primarily as a celebration of the
tender young maize plant, visually manifested through the image of Cen-
teotl/Chicomecoatl...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 623–645.
Published: 01 October 2019
... 1950–82 for a full history of the twelve books of the Florentine Codex. 3 Lockhart ( 1993 : 20) explained that we are still very far from understanding the true meaning of “god,” or teotl in Nahuatl. 4 An image of an eagle eating the sacrificial heart held aloft by a priest is found...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 195–225.
Published: 01 April 2024
... teotl (nonhuman lifeforce). Similarly, Ruiz de Alarcón discredited Nahua ceremonial specialists’ abilities, but he substantiated the power of ololiuhqui. He reported that Nahuas used ololiuhqui or peyote when they were not real médicos (physicians—i.e., titiçih) or when médicos did not want to go...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 449–477.
Published: 01 April 2005
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456 Review Essays
English fool (the example on page 4 of his dictionary being ‘‘tepuztli
Carochi states, ‘‘I do not consider it correct to write Teūtl, but Teōtl, God,
nor ichpūchtli, but ichpōchtli, maiden’’ (21). On page 128 a combination...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 437–448.
Published: 01 April 2005
... in
456 Review Essays
English fool (the example on page 4 of his dictionary being ‘‘tepuztli
Carochi states, ‘‘I do not consider it correct to write Teūtl, but Teōtl, God,
nor ichpūchtli, but ichpōchtli, maiden’’ (21). On page 128 a combination...
