Has anyone here tried starting with the Aztecs?

>>9854678
I didn't even know they had writing

>>9854678
My ancestors started with the Aztecs. Then they conquered other native empires throughout Latin America.

>>9854681
>Our sources for studying Conquest-era Nahua philosophy include: (1) native pictorial histories, ritual almanacs, tribute records, and maps, including the Codex Mendoza (painted several years after the Conquest), Codex Borgia (painted shortly before the Conquest), and Codex Borbonicus (painted about the time of the Conquest); (2) reports of the Spanish conquerors (e.g. Hernando Cortes and Bernal Diaz del Costillo); (3) ethnography-style works composed by missionaries (e.g. Friars Olmos, Motolinia, Sahagun, Duran and Mendieta) entering Mexico shortly after the Conquest -- most notably Sahagun's encyclopedic Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana; (4) early seventeenth-century chronicles of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Domingo de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, both Spanish-educated creole descendants of Aztec nobility; (5) native sources of non-Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico (e.g. the Dresden Codex and Popol Vuh; (6) ethnographies of contemporary Nahuatl-speaking (e.g. Knab 1995; Sandstrom 1991) and non-Nahuatl-speaking (e.g. Hunt 1977; Monaghan 1995; Myerhoff 1974; Schaefer 2002; Tedlock 1992) indigenous peoples; and (6) archaeological studies (e.g. Smith 1996). (For further discussion see Carmack, et al. 1996; Leon-Portilla 1963).

In a word, not really.

>>9854691
not really is two words

>>9854856
In a further twist, those first three codices are apparently actual bona fide Aztec writing.

>>9854681
They did but the spaniards burned a shit ton of it because they thought it was satanic

I've read this book, it was interesting. I want to read about Inca and North-American thought as well.

>>9857270
For you a two parts of the book I personally found interesting:
>Jicarilla Apache philosopher Viola Cordova argues indigenous North American metaphysics conceives the cosmos as a seamless dynamic field of energy or power that is called usen in Jicarilla Apache. Although standardly glossed as “great spirit” by anthropologists, she contends usen refers to something nonanthropomorphic and nonpersonal.74 Usen has a tendency to “pool” and concentrate in varying degrees, creating “things” such as rocks and trees.75 Cordova, Jace Weaver, Gregory Cajete, George Tinker, Willie Ermine, Deloria, and other Native scholars liken usen to other indigenous North American conceptions of a single, primordial, processive all-encompassing and ever-flowing creative life force including natoji (Blackfoot), wakan tanka (Sioux), yowa (Cherokee), orenda (Iroquois), and nil’ch’i (Navajo).76 According to Leroy Meyer and Tony Ramírez, Sioux metaphysics conceives all objects as “distinct manifestations” of wakan tanka.77 Once again, we see that native North American philosophies reject as false the distinctions between sacred and profane, spirit and matter, mind and body, and natural and supernatural.
>Aztec metaphysicians had a keen appreciation of the fact that things fall apart, that things become unraveled, imbalanced, and disordered, and that everything – including the Fifth Sun and Fifth Era – tends toward tlazolli (disorder, entropy). Thus we see another expression of the Tezcatlipoca factor, since tlazolli is associated with Tezcatlipoca. Sahagún includes dust (teuhtli) and filth (tlazolli) among Tezcatlipoca’s attributes.137 “When he used to go about on the earth, he would bring to life dust and filth.”138 Tlazolli threatens the order, balance, centeredness, and hence very existence of individuals, homes, temples, communities, and the Fifth Era. Aztec philosophers consequently believed the Fifth Era requires tireless and uninterrupted maintaining, attending to, arranging, and purifying. Humans must prevent the forces of tlazolli from accumulating, and sweeping is one of the principal ways of doing so. Brooms stand out as one of the principal weapons in humans’ struggle against this threat. When carefully executed, sweeping enables humans to defuse (if only temporarily) the destructive forces of tlazolli and transform them into something creative.

>>9854678
This book should be labeled like a fraud it is and its authors given a public beating followed by mandatory 10 year penitentiary stint. I'd love to see a government that deals with post modernists the way they deserve. Not much room for irony when Tyrone is sitting on your face 24/7.

>The Alt-Bro will go on to study architecture.
What did he mean by this?

>not originating with the olmecs

I read a bit of this book.

Interesting how Aztec philosophy goes right in the same direction as Heraclitus.

>>9857693
What is so terrible about it?

>>9858171
shit being about fire and stars makes total fucking sense when you don't have shitty light pollution.

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>>9858568
i'll get into navajo by thursday.

>>9858369
It's your standard word salad written with hope of gaining advancement in a field where there isn't anything original to be said. It's fradulent argumentation and another proof (as if it was needed) that academia, as a job field, is nothing but a self-perpetuating scam.

>>9858815
What are you talking about? The writing is ridiculously straight forward, unless you are literally mentally incapable of understanding pre-socratic concepts (in which case you will be incapable of understanding any philosophy) it shouldn't be a challenge.

You're one of those retards that can't understand anything so you babble like a mad-man about how everyone writing is just trying to confuse you.

>>9858934
there is nothing to understand about sophistry