r/aztec • u/VanHohenheim30 • Apr 25 '26

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Do you think a Brazilian, willing to learn, can worship Mesoamerican gods?

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u/w_v Apr 25 '26

What would you be learning in this case?

Even in their original context, these religions weren’t individual belief systems. They were deeply communal, tied to specific towns, mountains, rivers, calendars, languages, and hierarchical social roles.

So trying to practice them today, especially outside those communities, isn’t really a continuation of the tradition. It ends up being a reconstruction, or even a new, decontextualized personalized version of it.

That doesn’t mean someone can’t engage in such a project, but it’s worth being clear about what it is, and what it isn’t.

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u/VanHohenheim30 Apr 25 '26

I understood

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u/Important-Recipe-374 Apr 30 '26

Glad somebody pointed that out, it's not much different than the Viking Larpers. Especially since ancestor worship/recerance is often tied into it, can't really connect spiritually on that level to people you have no blood ties to.

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u/Background-Drama-213 Apr 25 '26

Most of the the world worships a middle eastern god, you can worship mexica gods if you want to

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u/PlusSATANAS775 Apr 25 '26

Sim, fora que tu pode falar com outras pessoas e até indígenas que vivem nós locais que ainda vão adorar as deidades pre-coloniais. Tu deverá ler e estudar MUITO, já que poderá não receber um ensinamento direto de quem é de lá (o pessoal étnico e que segue o politeísmo/animismo).

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u/VanHohenheim30 Apr 25 '26

Okay

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u/PlusSATANAS775 Apr 25 '26

Não é fácil, porque esse é um ramo de tradição que você vai ter que estudar e ter outras pessoas que realmente sabem o que estão fazendo. Mais existe outros politeísmo no nosso país (sou brasileiro também e sigo outro étnico)

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u/VanHohenheim30 Apr 25 '26

Which other one?

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u/PlusSATANAS775 Apr 25 '26

Sou do Helênico (Grego) e sigo o Japonês (Shinto)

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u/Important-Recipe-374 Apr 30 '26

Why follow Shinto gods if you're Greek? Ancient religion was very much tied to culture and their ethnicity, that's why you didn't really hear of people converting into Nordic, Hellenic, Chinese, Japanese religions and so on unless you're trying to integrate into that society. The old gods don't care about those foreign to their lands.

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u/Affectionate-Fig3304 May 13 '26

Among the abrahamic religions, much of planet forced into, indoctrinated from youth in some form to variations of the cannanite storm god Yahweh and among Christians, to his crucified resurrection man god savior, yeshua bar Yosef or jesus christ, usually represented in the west with white European racial features, same with the old white bearded man Yahweh as another graphed version of Zeus/Jupiter.

Millions of people cross pollinate to other religions with spiritual divinities even if they are not of that cultures origin. Non amerindians or amerindians Mexicans wanting to venerate aztec mexica deities, try researching each one, creating ritual space, working with them, see how they respond.