Everything about the Altepetl totally explained
The
altepetl, in
Pre-Columbian and
conquest-era
Aztec society, was the local,
ethnically-based political entity. The word is a combination of the
Nahuatl words
ā-tl, meaning "water", and
tepē-tl, meaning "mountain". According to the Nahuatl scholars
Lisa Sousa,
Stafford Poole, and
James Lockhart, "A characteristic
Nahua mode was to imagine the totality of the people of a region or of the world as a collection of altepetl units and to speak of them on those terms." For this reason, the word altepetl refers not only to the
polis, but also to all its inhabitants. They, like many scholars of Nahuatl, prefer the Nahuatl term over any
English language approximation. They argue that in many of the documents pertaining to the
Virgin of Guadalupe, the word "āltepētl" is often used as a translation of the
Spanish "
Ciudad de México", (
Mexico City), a translation that has colored the interpretation of the texts and conceptions of Nahua society.
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