Aztec Culture, Where The Gods Come Together

Aztec culture, where the gods come together

Before the conquest, there were multiple indigenous peoples who dominated all of America with their beautiful artistic works. Among these civilizations the Mexicans, Tenochcas or as they are better known: Aztecs is one of the most recent focusing on combining aspects of many other cultures, so one asks how this culture has been able to combine other gods and still maintain aown identity? The response to this returns at the same time one of the cultures that have highlighted the most, being one of the civilizations that could be achieved in its short period of life (compared to other Mesoamerican civilizations) and. In this work I will respond to this unknown reflecting on the various works of Aztec art, especially in terms of architectural aspect, which is the most important thing about this.

I will first give you some general information. The Mexican State was a town established in the late postclassic period, in the Valley of Mexico, this because they were the place where they found the mythical scene of an eagle devouring a snake on top of a nopal, a scenario predetermined by a legend where they would stay. In that place they began a great empire known as the "Aztec Empire", which covered the majority of the region of central Mexico and Guatemala Party, with the Mexico-Tenochtitlán city as a central city. With all this information it could be concluded that the Aztec people were one of the peoples with more wealth and power.

Already focusing on their artistic expressions. Aztec art understood above all in several statues .of men or for the first time in history, animals;masks, such as the Aztec mask of Quetzalcoatl that represents the other me;Volume paintings and their legendary architectural structures such as the pyramids of the sun and the moon. These in particular are very special, since in these most of the rituals of that place were performed, which included from offerings to human sacrifices. In addition, the pyramid of the Sun hides a great mystery being strangely and wonderfully built on a cave that naturally has the shape of a 4 -sheet clover. Most Mexican artistic works were created based on delicate carved wood or bone, gold and silver jewelAztecs had the deference that they incorporated these into common objects that caught their attention, such as a simple stone or a vegetable. In summary, Aztec art was a mixture of the ways in which other cultures built artistic manifestations, giving them their original touch.

These in general had the function of representing religious and mythical concepts through symbolism, as representing gods such as Tláloc with snakes and values and concepts such as creation and war with the Caracol and Eagle shell, respectively. Aztec art has many similarities with other cultures, for example, with one of its few neighbors they had, the Maya with whom they shared their little use of metals and the great use of stone, but with which it shared the most characteristics it wasWith the Olmecs and Toltecs, who were the former inhabitants of the place where they live: the Valley of Mexico. With these they shared most of the gods, their great monuments and their writing. Although the Aztec culture gave them their own turn by changing the name of some gods and incorporating other elements to their arts such as few gems or colored feathers.

In conclusion, for his successful work in joining many gods, traditions, artistic manifestations and past structural form, but also being able to revolutionize multiple aspects I think that the Aztecs are one of the most important artistic peoples, since when studying this cultureNot only do we learn from the Aztecs, but from all Mesoamerican cultures in general.