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- noun Plural form of
Nahua .
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From the Nahuas worldview, death was conceived as a transition between life on earth and the afterlife in the presence of the Gods.
Marga Britto: A Brief 'History' of Day of the Dead Marga Britto 2011
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From the Nahuas worldview, death was conceived as a transition between life on earth and the afterlife in the presence of the Gods.
Marga Britto: A Brief 'History' of Day of the Dead Marga Britto 2011
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The Nahuas 'removal of filth centered on the rites of sweeping and bathing.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Book Five of the Florentine Codex lists all the tetzahuitl, usually translated as "omens," that filled the Nahuas with apprehension.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Although the deities imbued humans with these forces, it seems that the Nahuas considered any change in them as essentially naturalistic in their effects on health.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The idea that emanations from one person, especially those who had committed immoral acts, could damage others was common among the Nahuas.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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In the slippery world of the Nahuas, overindulgence and excess opened one up to all sorts of peripheral dangers, yet its complete absence brought sterility and stagnation; best was to pursue the middle way, to maintain an equilibrium as best as one could. 42
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Just how the Nahuas thought this happened is not known, although indigenous groups today say the blood is its carrier.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Yet, as the next chapter will show, the concepts Europeans had about their bodies could not have been more different from those of the pre-Conquest Nahuas.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Daily bathing with a soap made from the fruit of copalxócotl (cyrtocarpa educalis) was a common practice among the Nahuas, a custom that astounded the bathing-adversed Spaniards in the sixteenth century. 18 Moreover, the purifying effects of bathing were an important therapy in ancient Mesoamerican medicine.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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