Overview
## Overview The Nahua (Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico, including those who built and inhabited the Aztec empire of Tenochtitlan) maintained a supernatural cosmological system of considerable complexity, documented primarily through post-contact sources: alphabetic records produced by Spanish colonisers and by indigenous scribes trained in alphabetic writing after 1519, alongside surviving pictorial codices, many of which were destroyed in the colonial period. The primary documentary source is Bernardino de Sahagún's Florentine Codex (c. 1540–1585), a twelve-book encyclopaedic reco…