A book on this society's Ceremonial Landscapes was edited by Harvard divinity school professor David Carrasco.
A book on this society's Ceremonial Landscapes was edited by Harvard divinity school professor David Carrasco. Like the Kwakiutl and the Nazis, its ever more elaborate religious ceremonies were linked to crises of legitimacy in Envisioning Power by Eric Wolf. In the eleventh month, this society's commoners took part in a Festival of Sweeping the Roads. These people might have believed they came from a Land of White Herons. This society built over seventy temples in a Sacred Precinct ringed by a wall decorated with images of snakes, and baked edible (*) idols out of amaranth dough containing honey and blood. Their New Fire ceremony happened every 52 years when two types of calendar year overlapped, and their largest sacred building was a twin temple containing racks of skulls. For 10 points, name this society whose religion was led by a tlatoani, and whose Templo Mayor sat in Tenochtitlan.
A book on this society's Ceremonial Landscapes was edited by Harvard divinity school professor David Carrasco.
Aztecs [or Mexica; or Tenochca]