Nahuatl Stories

Nhuatl Stories is the first English translation of one of Mexican literatures classics. The Nahuasbackbone of the Aztec empirewere the pre-Hispanic indigenous people of central Mexico and the Nhuatl literature presented in this collection conveys the customs, traditions, rituals, and beliefs of a culture with a very complex sociopolitical structure. Their cosmology sees gods, human beings, and nature coexisting and interacting on a daily basis. Today, more than 1.5 million people still speak Nhuatl, the second most widely spoken language in Mexico after Spanish, but it is largely underrepresented in literature. These 14 stories were first collected by Pablo Gonzlez Casanova in 1946, and this unique new edition presents the English translations facing the original Nhuatl texts and includes the authors introduction as well as an introduction by Miguel Len-Portilla, an authority on Nahuatl history and literature.