Nahui Ollin
Introduction At the heart of Aztec (or Mexica) cosmology lies a set of complex and interlinked concepts that shaped how the Nahua people of central Mexico understood existence itself. Among these, Nahui Ollin - literally “four movement” in Classical Nahuatl - stands out as a…
Introduction At the heart of Aztec (or Mexica) cosmology lies a set of complex and interlinked concepts that shaped how the Nahua people of central Mexico understood existence itself. Among these, Nahui Ollin - literally “four movement” in Classical Nahuatl - stands out as a…
Nahui Ollin
Introduction At the heart of Aztec (or Mexica) cosmology lies a set of complex and interlinked concepts that shaped how the Nahua people of central Mexico understood existence itself. Among these, Nahui Ollin - literally “four movement” in Classical Nahuatl - stands out as a fundamental idea. It is a symbol that encapsulates motion, cyclic time, cosmic instability, and the dynamic forces that animate the world.
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February 18, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Nahui Ollin
Introduction At the heart of Aztec (or Mexica) cosmology lies a set of complex and interlinked concepts that shaped how the Nahua people of central Mexico understood existence itself. Among these, Nahui Ollin - literally “four movement” in Classical Nahuatl - stands out as a…
Introduction At the heart of Aztec (or Mexica) cosmology lies a set of complex and interlinked concepts that shaped how the Nahua people of central Mexico understood existence itself. Among these, Nahui Ollin - literally “four movement” in Classical Nahuatl - stands out as a…
my aunt just tagged me in this and im actually flattered TT
![art of a (presumably) Mexica native looking through papers with Nahua symbols , crouching on the floor. the walls around them have many symbols/images of teotls. words on it say "Me dicen: 'nunca te veo de fiesta' pero yo nunca los veo explorando la historia [de] nuestras raíces"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2efuwrzld5zqedbpensq4bi/bafkreibda32mp2fom3k7xxmkxmqci53g5xdz4vqhxm7t2ck4iarkhmwnle@jpeg)
February 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
my aunt just tagged me in this and im actually flattered TT
Also thinking of cementing that Syla’s grandma Nahua dueled Gulool Ja Ja and made the few scales she took from him in a necklace
She respected him but also wanted to know she could still whoop his ass
She respected him but also wanted to know she could still whoop his ass
February 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Also thinking of cementing that Syla’s grandma Nahua dueled Gulool Ja Ja and made the few scales she took from him in a necklace
She respected him but also wanted to know she could still whoop his ass
She respected him but also wanted to know she could still whoop his ass
A few: Nahua glyph for earthquake, a landscape design with Popocatépetl in eruption, and an ammonite fossil.
February 14, 2026 at 9:17 PM
A few: Nahua glyph for earthquake, a landscape design with Popocatépetl in eruption, and an ammonite fossil.
I'm no expert but whenever I tell people about this it's the "neat elevator fact", but the other thing is that Tlatzolteotl is the one Aztec/Nahua deity nearly everybody in the West has seen a representation of: this prop was based on a real sculpture currently at Dumbarton Oaks in the US.
February 14, 2026 at 3:07 AM
I'm no expert but whenever I tell people about this it's the "neat elevator fact", but the other thing is that Tlatzolteotl is the one Aztec/Nahua deity nearly everybody in the West has seen a representation of: this prop was based on a real sculpture currently at Dumbarton Oaks in the US.
a bunch of things I found in various sources, especially the sketchily-attested use of chewing gum (tzictli) in the Nahua culture. I'm not an anthropologist or historian but I found a lot about the links between tzictli and the deity Tlatzolteotl 2/?
February 14, 2026 at 3:04 AM
a bunch of things I found in various sources, especially the sketchily-attested use of chewing gum (tzictli) in the Nahua culture. I'm not an anthropologist or historian but I found a lot about the links between tzictli and the deity Tlatzolteotl 2/?
I wanted to flag this article in case it was of interest to you and your students re: Nahua codices! I presented it for a class once and really enjoyed it
muse.jhu.edu/pub/208/edit...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/208/edit...
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February 13, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I wanted to flag this article in case it was of interest to you and your students re: Nahua codices! I presented it for a class once and really enjoyed it
muse.jhu.edu/pub/208/edit...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/208/edit...
Today’s ethnohistory seminar is all activities on pictographically writing histories with this gem:
(They have been doing an incredible job learning Nahua history, religion, and language and I’m so proud)
(They have been doing an incredible job learning Nahua history, religion, and language and I’m so proud)
February 12, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Today’s ethnohistory seminar is all activities on pictographically writing histories with this gem:
(They have been doing an incredible job learning Nahua history, religion, and language and I’m so proud)
(They have been doing an incredible job learning Nahua history, religion, and language and I’m so proud)
Though of course most of the Nahua peoples migrated down from North America, so maybe they're a capybara but I doubt it, they always seem chill
February 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Though of course most of the Nahua peoples migrated down from North America, so maybe they're a capybara but I doubt it, they always seem chill
descobri isso agora há pouco. E tbm do quichua vêm garoa, cancha, guampa, talvez galpão, congonha. Do nahua (astecas) provavelmente vem a palavra xícara
February 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM
descobri isso agora há pouco. E tbm do quichua vêm garoa, cancha, guampa, talvez galpão, congonha. Do nahua (astecas) provavelmente vem a palavra xícara
100% Unless you're a Native American or First Nations or Nahua, Maya, Tzeltal, Mixtec, or Tzotzil, or were captured and brought here against your will for forced labor, we all hail from somewhere else and came here for a better life or better opportunities.
What these idiots cannot seem to get is that THE American experience - American culture! - is your family being from somewhere else, loving your history, and joyfully sharing that with others while building a new place together. Like???
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
100% Unless you're a Native American or First Nations or Nahua, Maya, Tzeltal, Mixtec, or Tzotzil, or were captured and brought here against your will for forced labor, we all hail from somewhere else and came here for a better life or better opportunities.
Xiktal - Central America
Based on "Meeting of the Atlantic and Pacific. The Kiss of the Oceans" by Charles A. de Lisle Holland.
#wlw #kuskatan #centralamerica #nahua #elsalvador #indigenous #indigena #lesbian #gay #mesoamerica #oceans #art #yuri
Based on "Meeting of the Atlantic and Pacific. The Kiss of the Oceans" by Charles A. de Lisle Holland.
#wlw #kuskatan #centralamerica #nahua #elsalvador #indigenous #indigena #lesbian #gay #mesoamerica #oceans #art #yuri
February 6, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Xiktal - Central America
Based on "Meeting of the Atlantic and Pacific. The Kiss of the Oceans" by Charles A. de Lisle Holland.
#wlw #kuskatan #centralamerica #nahua #elsalvador #indigenous #indigena #lesbian #gay #mesoamerica #oceans #art #yuri
Based on "Meeting of the Atlantic and Pacific. The Kiss of the Oceans" by Charles A. de Lisle Holland.
#wlw #kuskatan #centralamerica #nahua #elsalvador #indigenous #indigena #lesbian #gay #mesoamerica #oceans #art #yuri
Love and care for our trans relatives while they're still around, not just when they're dead. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🏳️⚧️
#trans #transgender #nahua #kuskatan #queer #art #elsalvador
#trans #transgender #nahua #kuskatan #queer #art #elsalvador
February 6, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Love and care for our trans relatives while they're still around, not just when they're dead. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🏳️⚧️
#trans #transgender #nahua #kuskatan #queer #art #elsalvador
#trans #transgender #nahua #kuskatan #queer #art #elsalvador
Very much looking forward to this conversation!
“Rome-Tenochtitlan: Nahua Encounters with Ruined Cities in the 1520s”
February 26, 2026, 12 PM EST
300S Buell Hall and online
Byron Hamann
Response by Benjamin Anderson
“Rome-Tenochtitlan: Nahua Encounters with Ruined Cities in the 1520s”
February 26, 2026, 12 PM EST
300S Buell Hall and online
Byron Hamann
Response by Benjamin Anderson
February 5, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Very much looking forward to this conversation!
“Rome-Tenochtitlan: Nahua Encounters with Ruined Cities in the 1520s”
February 26, 2026, 12 PM EST
300S Buell Hall and online
Byron Hamann
Response by Benjamin Anderson
“Rome-Tenochtitlan: Nahua Encounters with Ruined Cities in the 1520s”
February 26, 2026, 12 PM EST
300S Buell Hall and online
Byron Hamann
Response by Benjamin Anderson
Tonalámatl de Aubin
La Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia resguarda este importante testimonio pictográfico que da cuenta de la concepción nahua del tiempo y del destino.
repositorio.inah.gob.mx/o-43963
La Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia resguarda este importante testimonio pictográfico que da cuenta de la concepción nahua del tiempo y del destino.
repositorio.inah.gob.mx/o-43963
February 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Tonalámatl de Aubin
La Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia resguarda este importante testimonio pictográfico que da cuenta de la concepción nahua del tiempo y del destino.
repositorio.inah.gob.mx/o-43963
La Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia resguarda este importante testimonio pictográfico que da cuenta de la concepción nahua del tiempo y del destino.
repositorio.inah.gob.mx/o-43963
Good afternoon.
Cosmic Tree (Mesquite)
2023
Watercolor on amate paper
By Gisela Martínez Morales
Xalitla, Nahua
mexicanlibrary.org/indigenous-c..., of the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero
Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, KC
See ALT text for artist documentary on ancestral recipes for color
Cosmic Tree (Mesquite)
2023
Watercolor on amate paper
By Gisela Martínez Morales
Xalitla, Nahua
mexicanlibrary.org/indigenous-c..., of the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero
Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, KC
See ALT text for artist documentary on ancestral recipes for color
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Good afternoon.
Cosmic Tree (Mesquite)
2023
Watercolor on amate paper
By Gisela Martínez Morales
Xalitla, Nahua
mexicanlibrary.org/indigenous-c..., of the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero
Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, KC
See ALT text for artist documentary on ancestral recipes for color
Cosmic Tree (Mesquite)
2023
Watercolor on amate paper
By Gisela Martínez Morales
Xalitla, Nahua
mexicanlibrary.org/indigenous-c..., of the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero
Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, KC
See ALT text for artist documentary on ancestral recipes for color
(also, from my very limited knowledge, the Mexico map could benefit from a second look as I'm surprised to see what seems to be Mexico City not be in the Nahua region (which is complicated, given that Nahuatl speakers included different nations)
February 3, 2026 at 11:15 PM
(also, from my very limited knowledge, the Mexico map could benefit from a second look as I'm surprised to see what seems to be Mexico City not be in the Nahua region (which is complicated, given that Nahuatl speakers included different nations)
Now available and 40% off for one more week with promo code ADV26
Humans, Saints, and Earth Beings: Community Through Combination in a Contemporary Nahua Village of Northeastern Mexico, by Anath Ariel De Vidas, translated by Pablo J. Davis
#anthropology #academicsky #latinamericanstudies #indigenous
Humans, Saints, and Earth Beings: Community Through Combination in a Contemporary Nahua Village of Northeastern Mexico, by Anath Ariel De Vidas, translated by Pablo J. Davis
#anthropology #academicsky #latinamericanstudies #indigenous
February 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Now available and 40% off for one more week with promo code ADV26
Humans, Saints, and Earth Beings: Community Through Combination in a Contemporary Nahua Village of Northeastern Mexico, by Anath Ariel De Vidas, translated by Pablo J. Davis
#anthropology #academicsky #latinamericanstudies #indigenous
Humans, Saints, and Earth Beings: Community Through Combination in a Contemporary Nahua Village of Northeastern Mexico, by Anath Ariel De Vidas, translated by Pablo J. Davis
#anthropology #academicsky #latinamericanstudies #indigenous
Malinche
La Malinche (1500–1529) was an enslaved Nahua woman who became the indispensable interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Depending on the story being told she either being taken advantage of, or actively betraying.
La Malinche (1500–1529) was an enslaved Nahua woman who became the indispensable interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Depending on the story being told she either being taken advantage of, or actively betraying.
February 2, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Malinche
La Malinche (1500–1529) was an enslaved Nahua woman who became the indispensable interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Depending on the story being told she either being taken advantage of, or actively betraying.
La Malinche (1500–1529) was an enslaved Nahua woman who became the indispensable interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Depending on the story being told she either being taken advantage of, or actively betraying.
One of the most extraordinary documents ever created by humans. The 12 volume manuscript "General History of the Things of New Spain", created in 1577 by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists, it describes the culture of indigenous Mexico.
Digital Florentine Codex
The Getty Research Institute provides global access to the Florentine Codex, considered the most important manuscript of early colonial Mexico
florentinecodex.getty.edu
February 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
One of the most extraordinary documents ever created by humans. The 12 volume manuscript "General History of the Things of New Spain", created in 1577 by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists, it describes the culture of indigenous Mexico.
lo amo de verdad
a friend of mine is blackfoot and he helped me include some references & inspirations to his character, as the facepaint is very reminiscent of northern plains nations so i wanted to be very careful about that
nahua is also a very big portion to his design >>
a friend of mine is blackfoot and he helped me include some references & inspirations to his character, as the facepaint is very reminiscent of northern plains nations so i wanted to be very careful about that
nahua is also a very big portion to his design >>
January 31, 2026 at 9:26 PM
lo amo de verdad
a friend of mine is blackfoot and he helped me include some references & inspirations to his character, as the facepaint is very reminiscent of northern plains nations so i wanted to be very careful about that
nahua is also a very big portion to his design >>
a friend of mine is blackfoot and he helped me include some references & inspirations to his character, as the facepaint is very reminiscent of northern plains nations so i wanted to be very careful about that
nahua is also a very big portion to his design >>
evil fucked up Nahua named Wahua
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 AM
evil fucked up Nahua named Wahua
What if i became a flautist?
(I mainly bought these as worship implements and to learn traditional Nahua tunes, but I'm not above learning to use them outside that context)
(I mainly bought these as worship implements and to learn traditional Nahua tunes, but I'm not above learning to use them outside that context)
January 31, 2026 at 1:37 AM
What if i became a flautist?
(I mainly bought these as worship implements and to learn traditional Nahua tunes, but I'm not above learning to use them outside that context)
(I mainly bought these as worship implements and to learn traditional Nahua tunes, but I'm not above learning to use them outside that context)
.//YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. I WAS LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR A XAELA TRIBE THAT TRAVELED TO TULIYOLLAL BECAUSE I AM SALVI/MAYA NAHUA & WANTED TO WRITE THAT FOR UMBRA, BUT NOOOOoooOOOOOO--
THE ONLY XAELA IS THE ONE IN THAT ONE ALLIED SOCIETY THAT IS FROM OLD SHARLAYAN FFS I'M SO MAD AT THE LACK OF CANON BS
THE ONLY XAELA IS THE ONE IN THAT ONE ALLIED SOCIETY THAT IS FROM OLD SHARLAYAN FFS I'M SO MAD AT THE LACK OF CANON BS
January 29, 2026 at 8:12 PM
.//YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. I WAS LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR A XAELA TRIBE THAT TRAVELED TO TULIYOLLAL BECAUSE I AM SALVI/MAYA NAHUA & WANTED TO WRITE THAT FOR UMBRA, BUT NOOOOoooOOOOOO--
THE ONLY XAELA IS THE ONE IN THAT ONE ALLIED SOCIETY THAT IS FROM OLD SHARLAYAN FFS I'M SO MAD AT THE LACK OF CANON BS
THE ONLY XAELA IS THE ONE IN THAT ONE ALLIED SOCIETY THAT IS FROM OLD SHARLAYAN FFS I'M SO MAD AT THE LACK OF CANON BS
Samuel Torres explains one of his relatives was treated by Alex Pretti in the ICU. His group, Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli, a traditional indigenous Mexica Nahua community preserving the ways of their Aztec ancestors, honored Alex Pretti with a traditional dance.
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Lilia Luciano on Instagram: "Samuel Torres tells us he just learned one of his relatives was treated by Alex Pretti in the ICU. His group, Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli @yaocenoxtli
A traditional indigenous M...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Samuel Torres explains one of his relatives was treated by Alex Pretti in the ICU. His group, Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli, a traditional indigenous Mexica Nahua community preserving the ways of their Aztec ancestors, honored Alex Pretti with a traditional dance.
www.instagram.com/reels/DUCb0V...
www.instagram.com/reels/DUCb0V...