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3 causes of injury/disease
1. Supernatural (displeasure of the Gods)
2. Magical (Curses or sorcery)
3. Natural/Practical ("Normal")
Used herbs to cure and prevent ailments
Steam baths to sweat out spirits causing fevers
Ground obsidian for wounds
Carried wood ash to repel ghosts, which could harm unborn babies
If mothers looked at the sun during an eclipse, their unborn child could be harmed
Aztec goddesses of women should be prayed to daily
Created by well-educated nobles
Focused on "flower and song" - which was the representation for art and symbolism in Aztec life
Written in "nahuatl" - the language of the Aztecs
Poetry was highest art form
Represented fluid nature of life and death
Omeoteotl - The Lord and Lady of the Close and the Near - God who created the universe
Achieved immortality through creation
So to create art (Poetry) they too
could be immortal
The sweet-voiced quetzal there, ruling the earth, has intoxicated my soul.
I am like the quetzal bird, I am created in the one and only God; I sing sweet songs among the flowers; I chant songs and rejoice in my heart.
The fuming dewdrops from the flowers in the fields intoxicate my soul.
I grieve to myself that ever this dwelling on earth should end.
I foresaw, being a Mexican, that our rule began to be destroyed, I went forth weeping that it was to bow down and to be destroyed.
Let me not be angry that the grandeur of Mexico is to be destroyed.
The smoking stars gather against it: the one who cares for flowers is about to be destroyed.
He who cared for books wept, he wept for the beginning of the destruction.
Areas where nobles lived, included:
Schools for training priests
Gardens
Aviaries
Zoos
A twin stairs pyramid - two staircases, temples
Left - Tlaloc, God of Rain and Harvest, painted blue and white, colors of rain and moisture
Right - Huitzilopochtli - God of Sun and War, painted red and white, colors of war and sacrifice
Located near the main temple/center of the city
Aztec law required citizens to sell at market
Objects being sold on the way to market were punishable by law and by religion
One of the largest cities in the world - 200,000 people
Main religious and administrative buildings were around a large central plaza called the Sacred Precinct
Commoners lived a distance from the center square
Had their own local temples and local markets
Some spread to form towns on the shores of Lake Texcoco
Built in "I" shape
Ball Court - "tlachco"
Ball Game - "tlachtli"