Essay On Aztec Religion

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Rituals- Saffiatu Fania
Sacrifices and Blood
Human sacrifices and bloodletting were important aspects of the Aztec religion, as they believed it brought balance and peace to the world around them
Aztecs believed in human sacrifices. They furnished human blood, for it was necessary for nourishing the sun, Tonatiuh. Mass sacrifice energizes the sun.
The reason behind these Aztec rituals was the belief that the Gods needed to be nourished by human beings. The Gods and Goddess required the living hearts of humans for nourishment.
When rain nourished their crops, the Aztecs believed they had to repay the rain gods by sacrificing children.
The treatment of a dead body and the path of the soul depended on the person's social standing and the way in which he died. …show more content…
All hearts are good, but the bravest captives were considered to be particularly nourishing to the Aztec Gods.
Captives were taken to a pyramid or temple and placed on an altar
The priest would remove the living heart and the heart was burned and the corpse was pushed down the steps (if he was brave he would be carried down)

The Aztec Calendar
A dating system based on the Mayan calendar
Consisted of a ritual cycle of 260 days and a 365 day civil cycle
Ritual cycle contained two smaller cycles, an ordered sequence of 20 named day and a sequence of days numbered 1 to 13
Each named days and a sequence of days numbered from 1 to 13
The civil year was divided into 18 months of 20 days each, plus an additional 5 days called nemontemi (considered unlucky)
The Aztec calendar, known as the Stone of the Sun, measured 12 feet in diameter and weighed 25 tons

The New Fire Ceremony
Also called the Binding Up of the Years
Celebrated every 52 years when the 260 day rituals and 365 day civil calendars returned to the same positions relative to each other
All fires (domestic and sacred) were allowed to burn

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