The bases of religion in Aztec Mexico

The Aztec cosmos: Teoilhuicatlaluaztli-ollin tonamalchiotl = the great and venerable mechanism of the universe, a guide to the poster and the sun stone, … from Pre-Columbian codices and reliefs

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Lecture delivered on October 26, 1993 in a program sponsored by the Department of Classics and Humanities at San Diego State University…. More >>

The World of Moctezuma: Aztec Myths of Creation/Destruction

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Now available for the first time in English, Guilhem Olivier’s Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a masterful study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon. An enigmatic and melodramatic figure, “the Lord of the Smoking Mirror” was both drunken seducer and mutilated transgressor and, although he severely punished those who violated pre-Columbian moral codes, he also received mortal confessions. A pat… More >>

Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, “Lord of the Smoking Mirror”

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The remains of the great double pyramid of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire, came to light during the spectacular excavation project undertaken by the Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia from 1978 to 1982. This volume offers three views of the Templo Mayor as the quintessential sacred space within the Aztec empire, presented in a collaborative effort by an archaeologist, an ethnohistorian, and a historian of religion…. More >>

The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan: Center and Periphery in the Aztec World