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The Human Body and IdeologyAlfredo López Austin
The Human Body and Ideology
Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas
- First published1988
- TraditionDivination
- Shelf84 books
A major study of Nahua ideas of the body and its animating forces, including the tonalli received from the day of birth. It connects Aztec medicine, cosmology and the calendar in a single system of thought.

















