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A 9 page research paper that answers ten questions concerning scholarship on Aztec civilization and culture. The writer draws on the scholarship of Miguel Leon-Portilla and James Maffie. Topics addressed primarily concern Aztec metaphysical philosophy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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at the heart of Nahua (Aztec) philosophy, and is conceptualized as a "single, dynamic, vivifying, eternally self-generating and self-regenerating sacred power, energy or force" (Maffie). In other words, the Aztecs
conceive of teotl as spirit, a concentration of "power as a sacred and impersonal force" (Maffie). This conceptualization goes beyond consideration of the divine as god or as gods, but
rather encompasses everything in nature as well as human society. It is the "single, all-encompassing life force of the universe" (Maffie). Ometeotl is the Aztec god who was conceived
of as being omnipresent, in everything and everywhere--"in the navel of the earth, in the circle of turquoise, in the water, in the clouds, and in the land of the
dead" (Leon-Portilla 33). This suggests that the Aztec concept of teotl is made manifest in the ideation of this god. The various "sons" of Ometeotl are the mechanisms by which
space and time enter the world (Leon-Portilla 33). In other words, Ometeotl sounds like a concrete way of conceptualizing the Aztec metaphysical idea of teotl. 2. How is Maffies
notion of the house of cards similar to Leon-Portillas account of the Aztecs idea that life on earth is dream-like? Aztec poetry and song frequently addresses the idea
that life is a dream (Leon-Portilla 7). The Aztecs reasoned that, eventually, everything vanishes, even things such as rocks and precious metals that seem impervious to the effects of time.
Therefore, they asked if there was anything that truly stable in the world and concluded that there was not (Leon-Portilla 7). Maffie, as far as this writer/tutor can determine, does
not refer to the Aztec concept of earthly life as a "house of cards," but rather as a "house of painting" (Maffie). The Aztecs saw earthly existence as consisting
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