Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
The Aztecs, or Mexica, believed the universe was fragile. The gods needed blood for the sun to keep moving. Without offerings, chaos would come back.
What horrified the Spanish rested on one clear idea: the lives of the gods and the lives of humans were bound together. Here's how that cosmology worked.
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- 2The Five Suns: a world that has already died four times
- 3A pantheon of dualities
- 4The flower wars
- 5The end of a world, lasting traces
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary13 terms explained in a tap.
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