Template:Did you know nominations/Aztec

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset (talk) 19:05, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
Nomination was never transcluded; nominator wasn't interested in pursuing it nearly three months later, so treating it as withdrawn.

Aztec

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Aztec foundation of Tenochtitlan in the Codex Mendoza

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Aztec myth of the foundation of Tenochtitlan as depicted in Codex Mendoza (pictured), has served as inspiration for the Mexican national emblem? Source: Berdan & Anawalt. " a pictorial representation of the Mexica's founding of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec empire's capital, is one of the most complex and informative pages of Codex Mendoza. This single folio succinctly incorporates information on the city's ... This same symbol appears in several other Colonial accounts,5 and still serves today — with the addition of a snake in the eagle's beak — as the national emblem of modern Mexico."[1]
- ALT1:... that the calendar stone depicts the five ages of the world according to Aztec mythology
  ? (Source: Matoz Moctezuma 2016 "The Sun Stone is the best example of the Mexica concept of time. Tonatiuh, the sun god, is depicted in the center, surrounded by four quadrangles corresponding to the four previous Suns, or eras (León y Gama 1832, Part I:93–95, Figure 1.1). In the Mexica concept (p. 22) (p. 23) of time, these four Suns preceded the current one and represented attempts by the deities to create and sustain humans, each ending cataclysmically. The gods came together in Teotihuacan and created the Fifth Sun; once it was set in motion, they once again created humans and, this time, provided them with corn.")

Improved to Good Article status by Maunus (talk). Self-nominated at 09:12, 21 April 2018 (UTC).