TRADITIONS IN AZTEC AND EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION

The Aztecs and the Egyptian cultures have their own believes and their own traditions. One of them believes in the life after the death and the other in a huge debt for the gods. Their amazing architecture, weird language and also their different ways to live.

The common aspects between Egyptian and Aztecs are few, one of them is both cultures believe that if they used any object are protected by gods. For example, the Egyptian used jewelry and the Aztecs use different types of tribal tattoos. The architecture of ancient Egypt and the Aztecs are very admired by people around the world like the Great Pyramids of Giza and the temples at Thebes by Egyptian people and the Sacrificial Temple, the Shrines of the gods, and the Emperor’s Palace by Aztecs all of them with commemorative purposes.

The differences in their costumes or their traditions are many. The Aztec language is called Nahuatl, but their Pictographs were used to represent their written language is very representative. The Egyptian language is a northern Afro-Asiatic language and obviously the oldest and popular writing system, called the native hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts. The Egyptian is excessively clean their appearance is always perfect. Men shaved their entire bodies for cleanliness, and aromatic perfumes and ointments covered bad odors and soothed skin. In other way, the Aztecs are also clean but not in exceed. Clothing was made from linen sheets that were bleached white, and both men and women of the upper classes wore wigs, jewelry, and cosmetics; the Aztecs do not use make up or any type of jewelry. The Egyptian child has to be circumcised at about age 12, this action do not have relevance in the Aztec culture. A huge difference between these cultures is the fact that the Egyptian people believe in immortality after death, so, their costumes consist in preserving the body by mummification, which consist in removing the internal organs, especially the brain through the nose, and desiccating the body in a mixture of salts called natron. Then the body is wrapped in linen with protective amulets inserted between layers and placed in a decorated anthropoid coffin. This technique took 70 days. On the other hand, we have a Aztecs culture who their main tradition is the human sacrifice, people believe that they have a debt of blood to the gods, so, for that reason, the people offers their blood to the gods. They sacrifice human beings and animals with the goal to pay the endless debt and avert disaster in the future.

These civilizations have provided many things to our world today, their imagination and their architecture are a memorable proves that cultures like that have contributed and are an image to fallow.

By Mária Paula Bohórquez