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 Illustration of a dance ceremony, taken from the 16th-century Florentine Codex. The instruments depicted to the front are teponatzli, with huehuetls visible in the background. | |
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| Nahua Mexica Indigenous people of the Americas |
Netotiliztli, often known as the dance of celebration and worship, was a traditional dance practiced by the Mexica people.[1] As a pre-Hispanic tradition, it was a spiritual dance, deeply associated with the worship of Aztec gods. Each movement had a connection to the four elements (water, fire, wind, and earth)[citation needed] and to the four cardinal points (North, South, East and West).
- ^ GINGERICH, WILLARD (1984). "An Aztec "Song of Anguish": The Shape of Performance". Southwest Review. 69 (2): 201–209. ISSN 0038-4712.