Nahua religion

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Nahua religion is the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican belief system of the Nahua peoples, centered on a complex pantheon of deities, ritual sacrifice, and cosmological cycles of creation and destruction.

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Label Occurrences
Nahua religion canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (65)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican religion ⓘ
religion ⓘ
associatedEmpire Aztec Empire ⓘ
centralMyth Five Suns cosmogony ⓘ
coreArea Central Mexico ⓘ
documentedIn Codex Borbonicus ⓘ
Codex Borgia ⓘ
Codex Mendoza ⓘ
Florentine Codex ⓘ
hasConcept cosmological cycles of creation and destruction ⓘ
debt-payment to the gods ⓘ
multiple soul components ⓘ
sacred warfare (xochiyaoyotl) ⓘ
teotl (sacred energy) ⓘ
tonalli (animating force) ⓘ
hasCosmologyElement layered heavens ⓘ
multiple world ages ⓘ
sun cycles ⓘ
underworld Mictlan ⓘ
hasDeity Centeotl ⓘ
Chalchiuhtlicue ⓘ
Coatlicue ⓘ
Coyolxauhqui ⓘ
Ehecatl ⓘ
Huitzilopochtli ⓘ
Mictecacihuatl ⓘ
Mictlantecuhtli ⓘ
Quetzalcoatl ⓘ
Tezcatlipoca ⓘ
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli ⓘ
Tlaloc ⓘ
Tlaltecuhtli ⓘ
Tlazolteotl ⓘ
Tonatiuh ⓘ
Xipe Totec ⓘ
Xiuhtecuhtli ⓘ
Xochipilli ⓘ
Xochiquetzal ⓘ
hasPantheonType polytheism ⓘ
hasPractice agricultural fertility rites ⓘ
bloodletting ⓘ
calendar rituals ⓘ
divination ⓘ
ritual sacrifice ⓘ
hasPriesthood tlamacazque (priests) ⓘ
linked to: tlamacazqui
hasRitualCenter Templo Mayor ⓘ
Tenochtitlan ⓘ
hasRitualCycle New Fire ceremony ⓘ
veintena festivals ⓘ
hasRitualObject copal incense ⓘ
obsidian blades ⓘ
paper offerings ⓘ
turquoise and feather regalia ⓘ
hasSacrificeType animal sacrifice ⓘ
auto-sacrifice ⓘ
human sacrifice ⓘ
hasSpecialist tonalpouhqui (day-keepers) ⓘ
linked to: Tonalpohualli
influencedBy earlier Mesoamerican religions ⓘ
practicedBy Nahua peoples ⓘ
linked to: Nahua
region Mesoamerica ⓘ
sacredLanguage Classical Nahuatl ⓘ
timePeriod Postclassic Mesoamerica ⓘ
pre-Columbian era ⓘ
usesCalendar tonalpohualli ⓘ
xiuhpohualli ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tonantzin → religiousTradition → Nahua religion ⓘ