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  2. Category:Aztec legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 1 September 2018, at 17:32 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  3. Ah-Muzen-Cab - Wikipedia

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    Ah Muzen Cab is a Melipona bee. [1] The deity is the creator of the Earth and Universe in the fourth and final cycle of the cosmos, according to Maya peoples in the Yucatán Peninsula. Ah Muzen Cab is the protector of M. beecheii and goes to the underworld to free trapped life forces. The bee god also unifies Ah Uuk Cheknal and Uuk Taz Kab. [1]

  4. Bees in mythology - Wikipedia

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    Her priestesses received the name of Melissa, ("bee"). [23] According to the Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry, the priestesses of Demeter were also called "Melissae", and Melissa was a name of Artemis. [21] Melisseus was the god of honey and bees, whose daughters Ida and Adrasteia fed the infant Zeus with milk and honey when his mother hid him ...

  5. Xipe Totec - Wikipedia

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    Annotated image of Xipe Totec sculpture. In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec (/ ˈ ʃ iː p ə ˈ t oʊ t ɛ k /; Classical Nahuatl: Xīpe Totēc [ˈʃiːpe ˈtoteːk(ʷ)]) or Xipetotec [3] ("Our Lord the Flayed One") [4] was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths, liberation, deadly warfare, the seasons, [5] and the earth. [6]

  6. Aztec codex - Wikipedia

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    Largely pictorial, it has short descriptions in Spanish and Nahuatl. The first section of the codex contains a list of land granted by Itzcóatl in 1439 and is part of a complaint against Diego Mendoza. Other pages list historical and genealogical information, focused on Tlatelolco and Tenochtitlan. The final page consists of astronomical ...

  7. Augochlora azteca - Wikipedia

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    Binomial name; Augochlora azteca (Vachal, 1911) Augochlora azteca, the Aztec augochlora, is a species of sweat bee in the family Halictidae. [1] [2] [3] References

  8. Melipona beecheii - Wikipedia

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    Melipona beecheii is a species of eusocial stingless bee.It is native to Central America from the Yucatán Peninsula in the north to Costa Rica in the south. [2] M. beecheii was cultivated in the Yucatán Peninsula starting in the pre-Columbian era by the ancient Maya civilization.

  9. Geography of Mesoamerica - Wikipedia

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    The Guerrero region occupies approximately the area of the southern Mexican state of the same name. It can be divided into three regions with different characteristics: in the north, the Basin of the Balsas River , whose current is the defining characteristic of the regional geography.