Mexico, as this atlas uses the name for a region, is the country in North America that borders the United States to the north and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast. The source dates human presence to at least 11,500 BC and describes Mesoamerica, home to the Olmecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Teotihuacan civilization and Purépecha, as a cradle of civilization. Spanish colonization began in 1521 when an indigenous alliance defeated the Aztec Empire, founding the colony of New Spain. Traditions, rites, texts and sacred sites are placed here when they arose in or belong to the modern country, whether pre-Columbian, colonial or later.
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Source Mexico (Wikipedia)
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Source Codex Borbonicus (Wikipedia)
Source An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the MayaMary Miller and Karl Taube
Source Greenstone Huitzilopochtli (Mexicolore, citing the British Museum)
Source The Oxford Handbook of New Religious MovementsJames R. Lewis (ed.)
Source Sacred Arts of Orisha Traditions Exhibition Record (Georgetown University Library)Joseph M. Murphy (curator)
Source Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk HealingRobert T. Trotter II and Juan Antonio Chavira
Source Mexicayotl (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Religions of Mesoamerica, 2nd editionDavid Carrasco
Source Plants For A Future: Ipomoea purpurea (plant database entry)
Source Ofrenda (Wikipedia)
Source Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New SpainBernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
Source Bursera graveolens (Wikipedia)
Peyote, Plants Source National Institute on Drug Abuse: Psychedelic and Dissociative Drugs
Source Ethnopharmacology of Ska Maria Pastora (Salvia divinorum, Epling and Jativa-M.)Leander J. Valdes III, Jose Luis Diaz and Ara G. Paul
Source Storax balsam (Wikipedia)
Source Religions of Mesoamerica, 2nd editionDavid Carrasco
Source The Tajin Totonac (Kelly and Palerm)Isabel Kelly and Angel Palerm
Source The Yaquis: A Cultural HistoryEdward H. Spicer
Plants Native Here
Source Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk HealingRobert T. Trotter II and Juan Antonio Chavira
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Plants For A Future: Ipomoea purpurea (plant database entry)
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Source CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive): CIA World Factbook: Mexico
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Mexico (Wikipedia)
IntroductionQuote, Introduction
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America.
Mexicayotl (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, WikipediaOriginated Here: Mexicayotl, Lead sectionQuote, Originated Here: Mexicayotl, Lead section
and traditions of ancient Mexico (Aztec religion and Azte
Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing
Robert T. Trotter II and Juan Antonio Chavira, University of Georgia Press, 1981- Plants Native Here: Limpia, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Mexico and the Mexican-American borderlands
- Originated Here: Limpia, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Mexico and the Mexican-American borderlands
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised edition
F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005- Plants Native Here: Misa de Accion de Gracias (Quinceanera), Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Mexico and Latin America
- Originated Here: Misa de Accion de Gracias (Quinceanera), Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Mexico and Latin America
View the Source The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
James R. Lewis (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2004Originated Here: La Luz del Mundo, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Guadalajara, Mexico
Religions of Mesoamerica, 2nd edition
David Carrasco, Waveland Press, 2013- Originated Here: The Great Pyramid of Cholula (Tlachihualtepetl), Stored country property on this entity, cited to this source: Mexico
- Originated Here: Monte Alban, Stored country property on this entity, cited to this source: Mexico
Ethnopharmacology of Ska Maria Pastora (Salvia divinorum, Epling and Jativa-M.)
Leander J. Valdes III, Jose Luis Diaz and Ara G. Paul, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1983Originated Here: Salvia Divinorum, Stored origin-region property on this entity, cited to this source: Cloud forest of the Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain
Bernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, School of American Research and University of Utah Press, 1950Originated Here: Ololiuqui, Stored origin-region property on this entity, cited to this source: Mexico, with recorded use among Nahua, Zapotec and other peoplesView the Source The Yaquis: A Cultural History
Edward H. Spicer, University of Arizona Press, 1980Originated Here: Yaqui Deer Dance, Stored origin-region property on this entity, cited to this source: Yaqui communities of Sonora, Mexico and of southern Arizona
The Tajin Totonac (Kelly and Palerm)
Isabel Kelly and Angel Palerm, Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Social Anthropology, 1952Originated Here: Totonac Peoples, Stored origin-region property on this entity, cited to this source: Gulf Coast region: Veracruz and northern Puebla, Mexico
Greenstone Huitzilopochtli (Mexicolore, citing the British Museum)
MexicoloreOriginated Here: Greenstone (Jadeite) Figure of Huitzilopochtli, Stored country property on this entity, cited to this source: MexicoView the Source Codex Borbonicus (Wikipedia)
WikipediaOriginated Here: Codex Borbonicus, Stored country property on this entity, cited to this source: Mexico (made in the Valley of Mexico; now in France)View the Source Sacred Arts of Orisha Traditions Exhibition Record (Georgetown University Library)
Joseph M. Murphy (curator), Georgetown University Library, Booth Family Center for Special CollectionsOriginated Here: Las Siete Potencias Africanas (Georgetown University Library, L.2017.2.31), Stored country property on this entity, cited to this source: MexicoView the Source An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
Mary Miller and Karl Taube, Thames and Hudson, 1993Originated Here: Florentine Codex, Opening sentences of the entity descriptionQuote, Originated Here: Florentine Codex, Opening sentences of the entity description
The Florentine Codex is the twelve book manuscript compiled in sixteenth century Mexico by the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagun together with Nahua elders and trilingual students, recording Nahua religion, calendar, deities, rhetoric and natural history in parallel Nahuatl and Spanish columns.
Ofrenda (Wikipedia)
Originated Here: Ofrenda, LeadQuote, Originated Here: Ofrenda, Lead
annual and traditionally Mexican
Plants For A Future: Ipomoea purpurea (plant database entry)
Plants For A FuturePlants Native Here: Morning Glory, Range
Central America - Mexico to the West Indies.
Originated Here: Morning Glory, Range
Central America - Mexico to the West Indies.
View the Source National Institute on Drug Abuse: Psychedelic and Dissociative Drugs
National Institute on Drug AbuseOriginated Here: Peyote, Mescaline and peyoteQuote, Originated Here: Peyote, Mescaline and peyote
Mescaline is a chemical compound found in peyote , a small cactus native to America's southwest and northern Mexico.
Bursera graveolens (Wikipedia)
Originated Here: Palo Santo, LeadQuote, Originated Here: Palo Santo, Lead
It is native to Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America from Venezuela to Peru, and the Galápagos Islands.
Storax balsam (Wikipedia)
Originated Here: Storax, LeadQuote, Originated Here: Storax, Lead
Storax (Latin: storax; Greek: στύραξ, stúrax), often commercially sold as styrax, is a natural fragrant resin isolated from the wounded bark of Liquidambar orientalis Mill. (Asia Minor) and Liquidambar styraciflua L. (Eastern US, Mexico, Central America) (Altingiaceae).
Aztec (Wikipedia)
Originated Here: Aztec, LeadQuote, Originated Here: Aztec, Lead
The Aztecs ( AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico from about 1300 to 1521.
CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive): CIA World Factbook: Mexico
CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive)Regions Where This Is Principal: Christianity, ReligionsQuote, Regions Where This Is Principal: Christianity, Religions
Religions.text: Catholic 77.7%, no religion 10.6%, other Evangelical Churches 7.5%, Jehovah Witness 1.2%; less than 1 percent: Pentecostal, Seventh Day Adventist, Historics, not specified, Latter Day Saints, other religions
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