[Aztlan] El Salvador - Nahuas

[Heather Hess]

The prehistoric and modern Pipil are from at least three separate cultural and language groups that were loosely joined by conquest and later by culture [citation needed]. The earliest, a subgroup of a nomadic people known as the Nahua, migrated into Central America about 3000 B.C. [citation needed] The Nahua later came under the influence of Maya culture, perhaps through immigration and conquest. Ruins of limestone pyramids built by the Maya between A.D. 100 and 1000 are found in western El Salvador. Maya culture and language dominated this area of Mesoamerica until the ninth century A.D. Nahua/Maya civilization did not achieve the complexity found in the Maya heartland in Mexico and Guatemala, but appears to have been vital on a smaller scale [citation needed].> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:59:09 -0400> From: nhopkins at mailer.fsu.edu> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org> Subject: [Aztlan] Achiote> > Two comments: First, the quote says it's CAL (i.e., lime), not > achiote, that's used to kick up the coca, like it's used in Chiapas > with the tobacco that is chewed. It helps release the alcaloids. > Second, achiote is used as a pigment, as the quote says, and it is also > used as a body pigment, which (IMHO) is why we have RED INDIANS; the > Caribbean Indians were using it as a body paint; it's also said to be > an insect repellent.> > Nick Hopkins> > ----------------------------------------------------------------> > > _______________________________________________> Aztlan mailing list> Aztlan at lists.famsi.org> http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/aztlan
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