>>716295749
cont:

>>716289897
As I mentioned some of their info is wrong and/or cherrypicked, but there's dozens to a few hundred prehispanic, 16th and 17th century sources on the Aztec. It's just a lot haven't been translated from Nahuatl or Spanish into english. One of the largest though and easiest to access is the Florentine Codex, which is a 12 volume collection of stuff on all aspects of Mexica society from gods, holidays, rituals, daily life, occupations, crafts, clothing, merchantry, public speeches and ethics, natural history, their views of Mesoamerican civilizations etc. There's high res scans, and multiple searchable translations for free here: https://florentinecodex.getty.edu

Just keep in mind that this was still written a few decades after contact, under Spanish supervision, so some things have errors or biases. EX: book 12 mentions stuff about Cortes's arrival being prophesied and him being mistaken as a god and that's nonsense

Pic related is an excerpt about the primary sacrifice (of Tezcatlipoca's deity impersonator) for the festival of Toxcatl, this is a fun example because it shows how obsessively specific picking sacrifice victims was and they weren't just dragging just anybody to an altar, and how the victim (at least for deity impersonators, "generic" sacrifices less so) had a bunch of specific duties, rituals, and tasks to do as part of their sacrifice that some degree of cooperation would have been necessary for, though as you can see in the text there were also guards around to keep them compliant, to a degree.

>>716296075
As I've said many, many times in the thread, post what you think is wrong I've said and I'll back it up. I linked formal academic papers in >>716293341 for example.

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>>716292261
You're not gonna get media about the Purepecha, Zoque, Mixe, Chatinos etc without more Aztec media first, sadly.

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