Posts Tagged: Nahuatl

Nahuatl that we speak every day

27 January 2020

In the previous article on Nahuatl and its dominance over huge chunks of Mexico and Central America, we looked into its growing outreach through the last two centuries of the pre-contact times and then its surprisingly even greater reach in the first two centuries of... Read More

Nahuatl – the lingua franca of pre-contact and early colonial Central Mexico

27 October 2019

Back in the pre-hispanic days, even before the hugely important and greatly influential Triple Alliance that we know today as the famous Aztec Empire, the Nahuatl/Nawatl language was spoken widely all across the Mexican Valley and beyond it. Not only the Nahua people used it,... Read More

Part XV: The Conquest of Tlatelolco

28 February 2017

After the unsuccessful night attack on Tenochtitlan described in the Tenochtitlan’s Conquests Part XIV Tlatelolco found itself in a dire dilemma: to try and fight in an open battle that they had not much chances of winning, or to crawl before their powerful but now... Read More

Metallurgy in pre-columbian Central Mexico

28 October 2016

If dazzling jewelry was your weakness, then you might have found it hard to pass through a marketplace or workshop areas of Tenochtitlan or any other major Mesoamerican altepetl/city-state without spending much of your hard earned goods or local currency – cocoa beans and cotton... Read More

The Aztecs and the Atlatl

5 April 2014

I’m honored to present a guest post from Andres Michel Amezcua (Quezaltcoalt), Spanish Bilingual Interpreter at American Translators Association, an expert on Mesoamerica and its various pre-contact nations and cultures. The Aztecs and the Atlatl As they fought their way across Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital,... Read More

Invited to the royal feast in the Mexica Palace?

12 June 2013

A guest post from Enrique Ortiz, an artist, painter, and web designer, a man who knows way too much about anything Mexica-Aztec related, a man who would not miss a single archaeological conference in the Temple Mayor museum. Enrique is also one of the founders... Read More

Tlahcuilo – the one who writes painting

7 January 2013

I’m honored to present a guest post by Rosalina Cantú Guzmán, an artist, writer, poet and philosopher. Rosalina’s poems are beautiful and her paintings are inspiring. Rosalina seeks “…to learn, to share and to understand…” “…Through my writing,” she says. “I share my questions about... Read More

Weapons in the Mexica period

29 December 2012

A guest post from Enrique Ortiz, an artist, painter, and web designer, a man who knows way too much about anything Mexica-Aztec related, a man who would not miss a single archeological conference in the Temple Mayor museum. Enrique is a talented painter and I... Read More

Clase De Náhuatl #3

11 December 2012

We begin with the #ClaseDeNáhuatl So, this time our #ClaseDeNáhuatl will continue to deal with the meaning of names of various modern Mexican cities and towns that, apparently, came from Nahuatl. Last week I talked about cities that begin with the letter A. Today I... Read More

Clase De Náhuatl #2

9 December 2012

Ready for #ClaseDeNáhuatl? Today I’ll talk a little about indefinite pronouns and conjunctions. The conjunction is the voice that joins the parts of the speech. There are copulative conjunctions, ie linking speech. There are also trade-offs that disjoint or separate speech. In Nahuatl the copulative... Read More

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