Twenty sacred Aztec hymns to the gods (Huitzilopochtli, Tlaloc, Xochiquetzal, Tezcatlipoca, and others) — the temple hymns recorded in Nahuatl by Bernardino de Sahagún's informants and published with English translation by Daniel G. Brinton in 1890.
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Tradition
Nahuatl (Aztec / Mexica). The hymns survive in book II of the Florentine Codex; Brinton issued the first parallel-text Nahuatl–English edition. Brinton's title is a 19th-century romanticism likening the corpus to the Rig Veda; the actual genre is teocuicatl, "divine song."
Translation
Daniel G. Brinton, *Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, with a Gloss in Nahuatl* (Library of Aboriginal American Literature, vol. VIII), Philadelphia, 1890. Public domain.
License
Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.