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>still retain a lot of Nahuatl conventions...
cont:
For example, this: https://www.reddit.com/r/nahuatl/comments/16axfgp/proof_that_this_famous_song_could_not_have_been/ is a more critical reading of one of the more famous poems ascribed to him: More "traditional" readings by say Miguel Leon Portilla (widely considered sort of the modern academic father of studying/viewing Nahuatl literature and religion through a more philosophical or intellectual lense, though many consider him to have been overly revisionist or whitewashing-y in some respects now) interpret it differently but even in this reading there's still clear thematic abstraction and philosophical/moral concepts being explored via allegory and metaphors, etc, it's just Nezahualcoyotl is the butt of the lesson rather then wisely giving them.
As I mentioned a lot of sources on Nezahualcoyotl glorify him and Texcoco: Fernando Ixtlilxochtil presents him as a sort of proto Christian that rejected human sacrifice and worshipped a monotheistic god, and that's bullshit. He presents him as being a legal codifier who made formal written laws and innovated legal and judicial system that then inspired the systems used by Tenochtitlan and other cities (tangential, but it's also worth noting here how say Tlaxcala had a formal senate, whose senators had to undergo public beatings and insults to prove their commitment to civil service, and then undergo legal and ethical training prior to taking office)...
>>716285440
Macuahuitl are cool but there's tons of other Mesoamerican weapons, see pic for a WIP collage we're working on. (well made) Macuahuitl also would not have been crude, the best documented surviving specimen was quite refined, had gold inlays, some likely had ornate engravings, etc.
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>>716295902
>>716295567
>>716294585
>>716294489
>>716291482
>>716291853
>>716296530
>>716292589
>still retain a lot of Nahuatl conventions...
cont:
For example, this: https://www.reddit.com/r/nahuatl/comments/16axfgp/proof_that_this_famous_song_could_not_have_been/ is a more critical reading of one of the more famous poems ascribed to him: More "traditional" readings by say Miguel Leon Portilla (widely considered sort of the modern academic father of studying/viewing Nahuatl literature and religion through a more philosophical or intellectual lense, though many consider him to have been overly revisionist or whitewashing-y in some respects now) interpret it differently but even in this reading there's still clear thematic abstraction and philosophical/moral concepts being explored via allegory and metaphors, etc, it's just Nezahualcoyotl is the butt of the lesson rather then wisely giving them.
As I mentioned a lot of sources on Nezahualcoyotl glorify him and Texcoco: Fernando Ixtlilxochtil presents him as a sort of proto Christian that rejected human sacrifice and worshipped a monotheistic god, and that's bullshit. He presents him as being a legal codifier who made formal written laws and innovated legal and judicial system that then inspired the systems used by Tenochtitlan and other cities (tangential, but it's also worth noting here how say Tlaxcala had a formal senate, whose senators had to undergo public beatings and insults to prove their commitment to civil service, and then undergo legal and ethical training prior to taking office)...
>>716285440
Macuahuitl are cool but there's tons of other Mesoamerican weapons, see pic for a WIP collage we're working on. (well made) Macuahuitl also would not have been crude, the best documented surviving specimen was quite refined, had gold inlays, some likely had ornate engravings, etc.
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