Nahua
Americannoun
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Nahuas,
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Nahua
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Though variations of the story exist along the Nahua region of Mexico, Tlahuelpuchi typically turns into a Mexican turkey vulture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
With shared ancestry in the Nahua Indigenous group, which has ties to the Aztec civilization in central Mexico, the couple pledged to merge their identities and scientific studies as part of their future together.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
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
Buschmann has, moreover, proven that the foregoing names of the capitals, of what were at one time four provinces, are pure Nahuatl, which fact establishes the existence of Nahua supremacy in these regions.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
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
Experts found that the Nahuas believed these dogs represented the god, Xólotl, the twin brother of deity Quetzalcóatl.
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
The Nahuas, after destroying the city of the wise men, established themselves in Uxmal, on account of its strategic position, in the midst of a plain inclosed by hills easily defended.
From The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries by Stephen Salisbury
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