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An Aztec family studying the night sky (Click on image to enlarge) |
The most important thing for me has been their ‘cosmovision’ - that is, the way they saw the world, their gods, time and space, nature, society, and themselves as people, etc. Everything was part of one big system that made sense as a whole: and not just to the Aztecs. They shared their core principles with all other Mesoamerican peoples.
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Lo que he encontrado más importante es su cosmovisión, o sea la concepción que tenían del mundo, de los dioses, del tiempo y el espacio, de la naturaleza, de la sociedad, de sí mismos como personas, etc. Todo formaba parte de un gran sistema coherente. Sin embargo, no era una cosmovisión exclusiva de los aztecas, sino que sus principios básicos eran comunes a todos los pueblos mesoamericanos.
Illustration drawn for us by Felipe Dávalos/Mexicolore.