Hi, hello, mexican anthropology student who is really passionate about mesoamerican cultures here!
With the release of the Wakanda Forever teaser trailer and the reveal of the changes made to the character of Namor i want to make some clarifications:
• At the time of making this post there's no official statement that confirms if the changes made to Atlantis are based on mayan or 'aztec' culture, so please try not to refer to this as a specific culture unless there's some official information
• In fact there are other mesoamerican civilizations outside of these two, like the olmecas, zapotecas, mixtecas or teotihuacas, and the elements used for the movie could be a mixture of all these cultures, wich is ok since they're being used for a fictional civilization on a fictional world, however if that is the case still try not to refer to it as a specific culture, it would be erasure of the other mesoamerican cultures that inspired this
A little history lesson here:
Aztec is actually not the correct term to refer to the most studied mesoamerican civilization along with the mayan civilization, the one that founded Tenochtitlan, the place where mexico city is now, the correct term is mexica, which means 'people of mexico' or 'child of Huitzilopochtli'.
Aztec is a term that anglo-saxon historians used hundreds of years after the colonization of Mexico to wrongfully refer to the mexica civilization, aztec actually means 'people of Aztlán', an arguably mythical place where the mexicas came from, but they abandoned that identity once they parted to find the place where they would built Tenochtitlan.
Even if the mexicas came from Aztlán before building their own civilization, aztec still is the wrong term to refer to them since Aztlán (till this date) could be considered a legend cause there's not enough information of where it was placed, and presumably a lot of other civilizations parted from Aztlán besides the mexicas.
Anyways, thanks to those that stopped to read this, i'm really excited for this movie, Tenoch Huerta is one of my all time favorite actors and i am really happy for him!
Let's hope that they've done a wonderful job on the worldbuilding of this new version of 'Atlantis' for Namor, fingers crossed!
Edit: Also is important to note that the correct pronunciation of mexica is 'meh-shee-kha'
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