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Aztec (religious beliefs and rituals: aztec culture (The arts…

- - - - huitz tezcatlipoca Quetzalcoatl.
  - - - blend of religion, magic and medicine
        -religion certain gods were believed to send illness or heal them
        -magic certain illnesses were believed to be caused by black magic of a sorcerer
        -medicine- aztec knew the healing power of certain plants and minerals
  - - - religos in nature
      - stoneculpters of gods were inside + under tempel
      - statues of animals, like jaguars and snakes, showed belief of keeping balance with natural world
      - states placed below ground to show recognition of underworld
  - - - 13 numbers + 20 signs represent an animal, a nature elemnt like water or an abstract idea like movment.
      - combined to make 260 in divdedually named days
      - named for the day you were born
      - used to determined when religious ceremonies were held
    - - combines the 2 calenders
      - cycle of 52 years( time needed for the calendar to complete their cycles)
      - equal to a century( 100 years)
      - Aztec believed that the world could end at the end of this calendar, if there had not been enough rituals and sacrifice
- - - - biggest was in tenochtitlan
      - each type of product sold on a separate street
      - based on trade
      - selling outside the marketplace was forbidin
      - large white cotton cloaks + cacao beans
      - were the currency