Recently I have become fascinated by the Aztecs and would like to learn more about them from non-meme sources. I am asking you, Veeky Forums, to provide me with directions to quality literature/documentaries about them. Even the most normie-beginner-tier stuff would do, since I know next to nothing about Mesoamerica anyway. I am especially interested in their mythology/religion and general culture. Something about their warfare would be a nice bonus.
P.S. If there are any works about elements of their religion/culture surviving to this day as actual day-to-day practices, I'd be very interested as well.
> If there are any works about elements of their religion/culture surviving to this day as actual day-to-day practices, I'd be very interested as well. We´re living an aztec renaissance and this is the real thing, no larping
Please, elaborate or provide sources. This sounds interesting.
Colton Flores
Check out Broken Spears, it's a book with plenty of first-hand accounts from both sides of the spanish-aztec encounter.
Easton Johnson
If you want the Aztec perspective: >The Broken spears : the Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico If you want the various Aztec rituals >Representing Aztec ritual : performance, text, and image in the work of Sahagún
Kayden Collins
have you seen news from Mexico lately
Blake Rivera
Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion by James Maffie
This is the only book you need
Juan Lewis
Sounds fascinating, I will sure check it out. Thank you.
Many thanks. This Broken Spears one seems to be Veeky Forums-favorite so far.
No, I have not. Do elaborate or be so kind to provide sources to aforementioned news in English, (alternatively in Czech/Slovak, German or Russian) if possible, since my Spanish is sub-par and I won't be able to properly understand original sources while google-translate could be quite inadequate at times.
That's quite a statement! Is this book that good? I will check it out, thanks.
Benjamin Wright
It's time to venerate the old gods again.
Sebastian Campbell
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Nathaniel Johnson
I think meant cartels are literally ripping people hearts in aztec fashion and whole high school classes are disappearing without a trace. Would post vids but they are too disgusting for my taste
Brandon Lopez
What do high school students disappearing have to do with the Aztecs other than they both had education insitutions?
Juan Martinez
I've seen the vids, they truly are horrifying, but I doubt it has anything to do with Aztecs really, even if some cartels adopt some surface-level elements of their culture, like burrowing names or certain practices.
Cooper Price
Cartel members are mostly mestizos with mostly spanish blood.
Colton Garcia
Anyone can be Aztec if they BELIEVE enough, user.
James Carter
Doesn’t mean they can’t larp as Aztecs.
Chase Richardson
Mexicans LARP as natives when it's convenient and as European Spaniards when it's convenient, in reality they're neither, much like Amerimutts their just mongrels without a proper identity so LARPing is all they have left.
Joshua Butler
I wish people larped as aztecs. It's depressing all we have are those 'aztec dancer' danzantes and cartel members cutting out peoples hearts without any of the ritual or meaning that accompanied these ceremonies. At least the Maya have decent larpers in Xcaret. Even the incas have that Inti Raimi festival nowadays.
Eli Peterson
That's rather harsh. What about Mexican identity?
Camden Morris
There's still a ton of indigenous people in Mexico retard. Some of whom are Nahuas the same ethnicity as the Aztecs and their modern descendants.
Isaiah Anderson
Why can't Aztecs have modern LARPers?
Andrew King
For now this is the closest we are getting. But we need more people, organizing and academic research.
