Templo mayor: The Aztec vision of place

Carrasco, David Soto

doi:10.1016/s0048-721x(81)80031-0

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“…The Sacred Precinct was not only the largest place of worship but also the point of origin for ceremonial processions to the lake, swamps, fountains, fields, forests, hermitages, and, importantly, the neighborhoods and homes of ordinary people (Carrasco 1981(Carrasco , 1987. For example, the "Painal race," held during the month of panquetzaliztli, covered a considerable radius (Durán 1984:1: 28-29;Sahagún 1951:133-135).…”

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State Ritual and Religion in the Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan

Austin

Luján

2016

Oxford Handbooks Online

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The sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan was the center par excellence of divine atonement and one of the most prominent centers of liturgy in Mesoamerican history. It articulated two basic functional complexes: the religious, derived from building a temple shrine with lavish offerings to Huitzilopochtli in the center of the universe; and the political, shaped by the growing needs of the state. The state cult was sponsored by the supreme government to promote the great divinities, to ensure the well-being of all people living under the empire as well as its agricultural and military success. Outside the regular progression of the calendrical cycles, the state hosted lavish rituals in the sacred precinct for other important events and was the stage for grand ceremonies dedicated to seeking relief from the great misfortunes used by the gods to punish humans: agricultural disasters, famines, and epidemic diseases.

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