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Mexico · Religion & Belief · Hard

What is the name of the Aztec concept of a divine force or essence that permeates all things — the sacred energy residing in natural phenomena, revered ancestors, deities and certain ritual objects, from which the word for 'god' derives?

Teotl is the Nahua philosophical concept of a single, dynamic, self-generating sacred force — not polytheism in the Western sense but a form of pantheism where many gods are manifestations of one divine essence.

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