My smart wall by https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2019-05-22 02:40:28 UTC 2025-10-04 14:08:16 UTC hello@padlet.com Rituals and ceremonies elizabethgithens8 https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/362389179 The Aztecs believed in many different gods and believed they needed sacrifices so they would not be angry because they believed that if the gods were angry then the world would end so they used to sacrifice food, crops, animals and even other humans ]]> 2019-05-22 02:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/362389179 Beliefs about the world elizabethgithens8 https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/362762622 This god was good and bad, chaos and order, male and female.  Being male and female It had the ability to have four children, which came to represent the four directions of the compass, being north, south, east and west. These four gods were Huitzilopotchli (south), Quetzalcoatl (east),Tezatlipoca (west), and Xipe Totec (north). These four gods began to create everything other gods and water and with the water a sea monster named cipactli who was inevitably destroyed by the gods and used to create the heavens the earth and the underworld ]]> 2019-05-23 01:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/362762622 Beliefs about the gods elizabethgithens8 https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/362762777 the Aztecs believed in up to 200 gods but the 12 main are:
Ometecuhtli – The Two Lord
Quetzalcoatl – The Feathered Serpent
Tezcatlipoca – The Smoking Mirror
Huitzilopochtli – The Hummingbird of the South
Xipe Totec – Our Lord the Flayed One
Tláloc – He Who Makes Things Sprout
Chalchiuhtlicue – She of the Jade Skirt
Mixcoatl – The Cloud Serpent
Coatlicue – The Serpent Skirt
Xochiquetzal – The Precious Feather Flower
Mictlantecuhtli – The Lord of the Land of the Dead
Tonatiuh – The Turquoise Lord
]]> 2019-05-23 01:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/362762777 how did the Aztecs practice religion elizabethgithens8 https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/362769314 the Aztecs practised religion by celebrating with festivals and sacrificing crops, animals and even people. The Aztecs believed that they should sacrifice people because the gods and goddesses sacrificed there own blood to create the world so out of respect and honour they would return the favour ]]> 2019-05-23 02:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/362769314 Myths and what that shows about there religious beliefs elizabethgithens8 https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/363131471 the story of how music came to the world i believe shows that music is a privilege and an honour because of how hard tezcatilopochtli worked to get them music in the world because he believed it was to quiet and was making them sad so if he brought them music it would make them happy]]> 2019-05-24 00:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/363131471 Beliefs about death and the afterlife elizabethgithens8 https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/363156667 The Aztecs believed that when a person dies and the spirit leaves the body they must wonder through different layers of mictlan (the place of the dead) till they reach the bottom this place symbolised in which violations of religious and moral rules go to get punished these punishments are physical often involving fire but they can also be mental such as being cut off from god. they also believed that when you journey to the underworld you would be guided by a dog that could be linked back to death ]]> 2019-05-24 03:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/363156667 Ometecuhtli elizabethgithens8 https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/363159524 The dual god who in myth created everything ]]> 2019-05-24 03:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/363159524 Xochiquetzal elizabethgithens8 https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/363160748 feminine deity of beauty, sexual love and power, fertility and arts and craft ]]> 2019-05-24 04:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethgithens8/jj1md9p8znli/wish/363160748