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Jul 29, 2020
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In this article we analyze different studies on the space of the afterlife that appear in the missionary sermons written in Nahuatl during XVI and XVII centuries. Through the years, these studies have proposed that the missionaries used two concepts from Nahuatl, Mictlan and Ilhuicatl, as points of reference for translating the Christian spaces of Hell and Heaven respectively, assuming that both cultures conceived these spaces in
a vertical structure. Nonetheless, new studies on Pre-Hispanic and Colonial codex and manuscripts have shown that the configuration of afterlife space of the Mexica could not be conceived simply as a vertical configuration. Thus, the use of the concepts Mictlan and Ilhuicatl in the missionary sermons arises more questions on the topic.
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