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6. Toltec.

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Estimated Foundation Year: 850 AD

Location of the Toltec territory: They settled in the central plateau (in the area that now includes the Mexican States of Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Mexico City, State of Mexico, Morelos and Puebla, in Mexico).

Key book of the Toltecas : The manuscript of the Toltec-Chichimeca History.

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Main deities of the Toltecs:

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Description of the Toltec religion.

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Toltec mythology is known mostly for the adaptations that later cultures made of it, also given its influence on neighboring aboriginal peoples. Their religion and worldview contemplated a series of central gods such as Quetzalcóatl, Tláloc, Centéotl, Itzlacoliuhque and Tezcatlipoca, to whom they worshiped and offered human sacrifices.

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His is the origin of the Quetzalcóatl myth, inherited by other cultures and distorted into a multiplicity of versions. In almost all of them, however, the fall of the god is observed for having yielded to his carnal passions.

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Reference:

http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1607-050X2006000300003

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https://www.caracteristicas.co/cultura-tolteca/#ixzz6bdWyrPQ5

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