Nahua
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She was born in Mexico into a Nahua and Maya family of healers who work with traditional plant medicine.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 22, 2023
The next section will illustrate the native societies that first encountered Europeans — the Taino and the Nahua.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022
For Juan Hernández, a farmer from San Cristóbal Nezquipayac, cultivating and collecting the tiny insect eggs known as “ahuautle” — meaning water amaranth in Nahua — is a way of life.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
In some early annals, she is described as Marina, her Spanish name; in others, she appears as Malintzin, with “-tzin,” an Indigenous Nahua honorific, attached to her name.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2022
They may perhaps be attributed to some offshoot of the Nahua stock, probably the Pipil Indians, which developed on lines of its own in this remote corner.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Experts found that the Nahuas believed these dogs represented the god, Xólotl, the twin brother of deity Quetzalcóatl.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
The closeness between Xoloitzcuintles and their owners was also noted by the Nahuas, according to experts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Hundreds of years ago the Latin American Indigenous group, the Nahuas, believed that a hairless dog like him, a Xoloitzcuintle, was a sacred creature who could guide its deceased master through the underworld.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Did the artist who carved the cross also take liberties, which only informed Nahuas would grasp?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
Mayas and Nahuas both lacked important domestic animals.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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