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ID: 901000044
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Record Type: Guide Term

<Aztec iconography>

Note: Aztec religion, filtered down from the Olmecs, Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Mayan, and especially the fellow Nahuatl-speaking Toltec peoples, was typically Mesoamerican in terms of cosmology, the emphasis on the sun, and even particular deities.

Names:
Aztec iconography (preferred,English-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Amerindian iconography> (P)
........<Aztec iconography> (P)
Sources:
Aztec iconography
................Leeming, Oxford Companion to World Mythology (2005)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Leeming, Oxford Companion to World Mythology (2005)

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