2025年1月17日 · Aztec religion, the religion followed by the Aztecs, a Nahuatl-speaking people who ruled a large empire in central and southern Mexico in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Aztec religion absorbed elements from many other Mesoamerican cultures.

The Aztec religion is a polytheistic and monistic pantheism in which the Nahua concept of teotl was construed as the supreme god Ometeotl, as well as a diverse pantheon of lesser gods and manifestations of nature. [1]

2024年5月10日 · Aztec religion and culture flourished between c. 1345 and 1521 and, at its height, influenced the majority of the people of northern Mesoamerica. Great monarchs such as Montezuma imposed Aztec ideals across the area of modern-day Mexico, influencing the region’s art, architecture, and cultural values.

2009年10月27日 · From their magnificent capital city, Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs emerged as the dominant force in central Mexico, developing an intricate social, political, religious and commercial organization...

2022年1月19日 · The Aztecs ruled over a powerful empire throughout much of central Mexico in the centuries before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors during the European Age of Exploration. An important aspect of the Aztec Empire and history was their religious beliefs and practices.

Religion permeated every aspect of Aztec life, no matter what one’s station, from the highest born emperor to the lowliest slave. The Aztecs worshipped hundreds of deities and honored them all in a variety of rituals and ceremonies, some featuring human sacrifice.

2018年7月28日 · The Aztec religion was made up of a complex set of beliefs, rituals and gods that helped the Aztec/Mexica to make sense of their world's physical reality, and the existence of life and death.

2019年7月27日 · The Aztec religion did not emerge in a vacuum. It emerged in the context of thousands of years of successive Mesoamerican civilizations including the Zapotecs of Monte Alban, Teotihuacan, the Toltecs, and the Mixtecs. Many Aztec religious beliefs were shared by the surrounding cultures.

Aztec religion was an intricate belief system that not only encompassed the worship of a multitude of gods but also dictated the cultural, societal, and political frameworks of the Aztec civilization that thrived in Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th century.

Aztec religion, as we have seen, was formed during the rise to empire of a minority population who inherited urban traditions and sociopolitical conflicts of great prestige and intensity. This remarkable tradition came to an abrupt end during the military conquest of Tenochtitl á n by the Spanish and the subsequent destruction of ceremonial life.