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Aztec Religion
Summary: Essay discusses the religion of the ancient Aztecs.
The Aztecs have a very complex religion. One very interesting part of their religion is the cosmology. Which was based on a lot of old ways of viewing the world. Another thing i found interesting were the sorts of gods that Aztecs had. One I found especially interesting were the gods of the heavens. Something else i found to be interesting was the priesthood of the Aztecs. The descent into priesthood started when the children were 13.
To understand he religion it helps to grasp the world plan which the Aztecs had in mind. The Aztecs assumed that the earth was flat. They believed that above the waters and the underworld, a flat earth stood in a great ocean, which extended to the edges of the dome of the sky. Above the earth there was several layers of sky, in which the planets and the starry globe of heaven...
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