Sixty Cantares Mexicanos — the Aztec songs of war, death, friendship, the brevity of life, and "in xochitl in cuicatl" (the flower and the song). The poetic-philosophical literature of pre-Conquest Mexico.
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Tradition
Nahuatl. From the manuscript "Cantares Mexicanos" preserved at the Biblioteca Nacional de México. Translated by Daniel G. Brinton (1887). The corpus is the most direct surviving record of pre-Hispanic Nahua thought on death, transcendence, and the beautiful.
Translation
Daniel G. Brinton, *Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems* (Library of Aboriginal American Literature, vol. VII), Philadelphia, 1887. Public domain.
License
Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.