Teotl
Template:Short description Teōtl (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a Nahuatl term for sacredness or divinity that is sometimes translated as "god". For the Aztecs Script error: No such module "Lang". was the metaphysical omnipresence upon which their religious philosophy was based.
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This is conceptualized in a kind of monistic pantheism[2] as manifest in the supreme god Script error: No such module "Lang".,[3] as well as a large pantheon of lesser gods and idealizations of natural phenomena such as stars and fire.[4]
Similar concepts to Script error: No such module "Lang". existed elsewhere in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest, such as in the Zapotec term Script error: No such module "Lang". or the Maya Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang".. Such immaterial energy can also be compared to the Polynesian concept of Mana.[5] In Pipil mythology Script error: No such module "Lang". (Nawat cognate of Teotl)[6][7] is known as the creator and father of life.[8]
The gods in the Aztec pantheon, themselves each referred to as a Script error: No such module "Lang". (plural Script error: No such module "Lang".), were active elements in the world that could manifest in natural phenomena, in abstract art, and as summoned or even embodied by priests during rituals – all these could be called Script error: No such module "Lang"..[9]
Molly Bassett identifies major characteristics of Script error: No such module "Lang". as the term is used in the Florentine Codex to get further insight on Aztec religion as described in other codices.[10]
Whereas in most Nahuatl translations of the Bible and Christian texts, "God" (Script error: No such module "Lang".) is translated with the Spanish word "Script error: No such module "Lang".",[11] in modern translations by the Catholic Church in the 21st century, the word "Script error: No such module "Lang".", which is a combination of Script error: No such module "Lang". and the reverential suffix -tzin, is used officially for "God".[12]
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "Footnotes".. He continues, "... There are no absolute beginnings - or absolute endings, for that matter - in Aztec metaphysics. There are only continuings. Death, for example, is not an ending but a change of status, because that which dies flows into and feeds that which lives ... in a single, never-ending process of recycling and transformation." (ibid p 24)
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Footnotes"., citing Hunt 1977 and I. Nicholson 1959; Leon-Portilla 1966, p. 387 cited by Script error: No such module "Footnotes".
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "Footnotes".. For a lengthy treatment of the subject see Hvidtfeldt, 1958
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- ↑ Also used for the Christian God in a modern translation of the New Testament by Jan Morrow and Alan King, Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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- ↑ Bible.is: Genesis in Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl, John in Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl, Central Huasteca Nahuatl, Western Huasteca Nahuatl, Northern Puebla Nahuatl, Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl, Highland Puebla Nahuatl, Guerrero Nahuatl, Northern Oaxaca Nahuatl, Tenango Nahuatl.
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