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Title: Syncretism


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Syncretism
  • When distinct elements from different religions
    are combined to create a new practice
  • Syncretism can be conscious, or unconscious
  • Syncretism is a common practice in situations of
    religious pluralism, and in situations of
    cultural conquest, as happened in Mexico

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Mictlantecuhtli
  • Aztec god of the underworld
  • Life-sized sculpture from ceremonial center in
    Tenochtitlan
  • Associated with owls, bats, and spiders
  • Connected to all three kinds of deaths in Aztec
    cosmology (1) normal death (old age, disease)
    (2) heroic death (warfare, child-birth) (3)
    non-heroic death

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Mictlantecuhtli
  • Aztec god of the underworld
  • Statues in temples received blood offerings
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