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Agonistic Inamic Unity
2014
Overview
Aztec metaphysics claims teotl’s ceaseless becoming is characterized by the cyclical struggle between paired complementary polarities such as life and death. Sections 3.1—3.3 explore this claim. Section 3.4 looks at how Mesoamerican artists represented this notion of polar duality. Section 3.5 focuses upon several more abstract dualities such as being and nonbeing. Section 3.6 argues that balance and imbalance and center and periphery arenotamong teotl’s dual aspects. Section 3.7 discusses Ometeotl’s relationship to polar duality. I conclude in section 3.8.
Teotl’s process of continual and continuous selftransformation is defined by what I callagonistic inamic unity, that
