What is "nahua"

Usage examples of "nahua".

Several of these codices are still in existence from the Nahua and Zapotec areas in Mexico, but only three have come down to us from the Maya region which is included in the peninsula of Yucatan, the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico, and portions of Guatemala and Honduras.

The bas-relief on which this is found is strongly Nahua in feeling and execution.

This head covering may indicate, according to the Nahua fashion, the tribe to which the warrior belongs.

But the air up here was fresh and cool and clean, and the jungle was lush from recent rains, and now and then Halperin saw a mysterious little town half-buried in the heavy greenery: dogs barked, naked children ran out and waved, leathery old Nahua folk peered gravely at him and called incomprehensible greetings.

The Nahua, who lived in central Mexico before the Aztec, said that Mayahuel originally lived in the heavens, where she slept constantly, guarded by the stern goddess TzitzimitL But the god of winds blew across her, caressing and arousing her until she awoke.

Itzpapalotl The goddess of the soul was symbolized by an obsidian butterfly among the Nahua of Mexico.

And that drone brought another memory, a story of reincarnation for warriors told by a Chicano ex-low-rider devotee of Huitzilopochtli, the Nahua god of war, who gave all the brave men who died in his name the reward of eternal beauty, endless reincarnations as living creatures of beauty.

Kendric did not understand the words though he readily recognized the tongue for one of the native Nahua dialects.