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La creación del hombre (mito maya quiché)

La creación del hombre (mito maya quiché)

by | Nov 26, 2025

Description: This animated video presents the K’iche’ (or Quiché) Maya myth of the creation of human beings, drawn from the Popol Vuh, the foundational text of K’iche’ Maya cosmology. In this account, the gods attempt several times to create...
Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

by | Dec 5, 2025

Description: The place-names that residents of the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City) gave to their city were both descriptive of topography and commemorative of history. Largely effaced from the Spanish historical register, Mexico City’s Nahuatl...