The Toltec And Aztec Subversion Of The Olmec Philosophy Of History

Item — Box: 38, Folder: 18

Identifier: CAC_CC_109_5_38_18_0010

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The Toltecs and Aztecs were able to subvert the Olmec philosophy of history by creating their own version of the story. According to the Toltec and Aztec versions, flun-munahou, the father of hunbatz and honchoed, was Aztec and the plumed serpent goddess, their deceased mother, was Olmec. The marriage between zipacna and the plumed serpent goddess was the Olmec way of transcending and resolving the racial infighting of Mesoamerica. Although Calvinism is the closest parallel in the modern world to the faith of the Olmecs, according to their philosophy, the Olmecs did not think of themselves as pre-destined. The immediate concern of the Popol Vuh was the teleological resolution of the desperate political situation, so that, when Hun Huangpu spoke out of the tree of Puebla Chah, he told Xiu

Dates

1981

Language of Materials

English

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