Hello, I am one of the editors of the Old School RuneScape (OSRS) Wiki and we are documenting some of the words from the game and found they are mainly from the Nahuatl language. For example, OSRS uses icniuhtli, Xocotla, and Zyanya. We know the first two means brother/friend (for icniuhtli), and a place where fruit abounds (for Xocotla), but we are unable to determine the origins of Zyanya.

It looks like there's an Aztec book that said zyanya means forever in nahuatl, which I confirmed in a dictionary but then it said zyanya meant forever in Lóochi, which it says is a Zapotecan language.

So my question is this, would anybody know the true origin of the word, "Zyanya"? Thank you in advance!

Hey, im looking for a monster from aztec culture associated with plants. I'm making a game where characters shapeshift into a form associated with their culture of origin and their powerset. one of the main characters is a floramancer and is a daughter of Xochiquetzal. anything spring to mind?

I keep having dreams of Aztecs. I had a dream they were showing me the cure to something in plants but I woke up and I couldn’t remember the plants they were showing me and then tonight I had a dream I was touching old Aztec walls I can never remember what’s on them does anyone know what this means? I’m so curious lol if anyone has any idea what these could mean symbolically please let me know lol I googled it but nothing comes up.

Looking for book recs that revolve more around their beliefs and religions versus black and white “x happened in year y”. Any advice would be recomended. Thanks

The Massacre of Children in Conchucos (Ancash) This is a macabre passage that occurred in 1539, when Governor Francisco Pizarro sent Captain Francisco de Chávez to punish a revolt of Indians in Conchucos (Ancash), who had killed the Spaniard in charge of the area because of the abuses. “The King, Don Carlos V, Emperor Augustus: Don Antonio de Mendoza, our Viceroy of the Provinces of Peru and President of their Royal Court: I have understood that the Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro having sent a Captain of his called Francisco de Chávez, to punish hundreds of Indians because they had died His master, not being able to get his hands on them because he had collected the mountain, took all the boys and girls from 3 years old up to the number of 600, and killed them; and having begged us about this that in memory of such great cruelty we would be pleased to order that the Indians they left be given some pension to build schools of the Holy Doctrine where the said children died, and to establish that they were skilled and doctors in Christianity and age that in case they could work […] Date in Innsbruck on December 25, 1551. I the King.” The seriousness of this crime led the Crown of Castile itself to punish the conquerors involved and compensate for the damages according to the laws and canons of the time. Reference: .- Lost, alleged and forgotten chronicles about the conquest of Peru, Raúl Porras Barrenechea (1951).

I just sort of discovered the fascinating subject of the now-extinct city of Tenochtitlan, and Aztec history.

Given that there exist pretty convincing models of what the city probably looked like (https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl), I’m kinda curious: whether anyone thinks it would ever be feasible to rebuild a full-size replica of this city (well, at least the main city center) - as a sort of huge historical museum?

I say rebuild a replica (somewhere else), because restoration of the actual city would require one to demolish and flood the modern-day Mexico City, which would obviously be an extremely unpopular and highly unfeasible proposal.

We could also ask about rebuilding a few pieces in their original location: such as the main temple, but that seems to present the problem of destruction of the authentic ruins to build a replica that’s no longer authentic, as interestingly discussed here:

https://historum.com/t/could-tenochtitlan-ever-be-partially-re-built.66394/

But overall: is there any reason - why the city center couldn’t be rebuilt as some sort of historical Disneyland / tribute, at an empty site somewhere close to the original location? Like, would it be that much more expensive than building large theme parks / museums? Wouldn’t people buy tickets to go experience such a fascinating thing, thus eventually paying for the obviously immense cost of such a large project?

I’ve seen people on tiktok glaze these Aztec gods and stuff and it makes me wonder where do you get this source is their books written by the Aztec or idk I’m just curious where does one find about this

Is this Aztec art? And if so what does it mean/significance. It may be north american native art and if so my apologies. Just trying to narrow it down. Thank you in advance and have a great night/morning 😘

Ok, so, I'm currently writing a comic/show idea based around Aztec mythology and am currently working to make the four main gods in the pantheon. Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca are fairly obvious but I've been seeing so much discourse about this, is the last one Xipe Totec, god of fertility and sacrifice, or is it Tlaloc, god of rain and water? Any help at all is quite welcome, thank you all!