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Aztec religion — Wikipedia (en)

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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. The popular religion tended to embrace the mythological and polytheistic aspects, and the Aztec Empire's state religion sponsored both the monism of the upper classes and the popular heterodoxies. The most important deities were worshiped by priests in Tenochtitlan, particularly Tlaloc and the god of the Mexica, Huitzilopochtli, whose shrines were located on the Templo Mayor. Their priests would receive special dispensation from the empire. When other states were conquered the empire would often incorporate practices from its new territories into the mainstream religion. In common with many other indigenous Mesoamerican civilizations, the Aztecs put great ritual emphasis on calendrics, and scheduled festivals, government ceremonies, and even war around key transition dates in the Aztec calendar. Public ritual practices could involve food, storytelling, and dance, as well as ceremonial warfare, the Mesoamerican ballgame, and human sacrifice. The cosmology of Aztec religion divides the world into thirteen heavens and nine earthly layers or netherworlds. The first heaven overlaps with the first terrestrial layer, so that heaven and the terrestrial layers meet at the surface of the Earth. Each level is associated with a specific set of deities and astronomical objects. The most important celestial entities in Aztec religion are the Sun, the Moon, and the planet Venus (as both "morning star" and "evening star"). After the Spanish Conquest, Aztec people were obliged to convert to Catholicism, and the two religions syncretized. This syncretism is evidenced by the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Day of the Dead.

Tema degli esploratori: fisica e astronomia (deposito sistematico; ricerca «cosmology»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Aztec religion» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_religion
Wikidata Q781560 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q781560
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_religion?action=history).
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