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León-Portilla married Ascensión Hernández Triviño, a Spanish linguist and academic, in 1965. Their daughter, Marisa León-Portilla, is also a historian. León-Portilla died in Mexico City on 1 October 2019 after having been hospitalized for much of the year.
On October 1, Miguel León-Portilla, a distinguished Mexican scholar and collaborator of the Academy of American Franciscan History, died in Mexico City at age 93. * The best words I have found to acknowledge the breadth of his academic activities are those of another distinguished Franciscan scholar, the late fray Lino Gómez Canedo.
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Aug 1, 2004 · Ometeotl (Two-God) has both male and female aspects–Tonantzin, Totatzin, Our Mother, Our Father, each name including the honorific tzin. The God of Duality was non-anthropmorphic, and unlike other Nahua gods did not exhibit human characteristics.
Exactly nine decades after his birth and close to completing his seventh tlalpilli or 13-year cycle, Miguel León-Portilla exemplifies for all of us what is known in the Nahuatl language as an omacic oquichtli, that is to say, a “mature man” (Sahagún Reference Sahagún, Anderson and Dibble 1961:12; León-Portilla Reference León-Portilla ...
Miguel León-Portilla is a leading Mexican scholar of ancient Mexican literature, philosophy, and culture. Born on February 22, 1926, in Mexico City, Léon-Portilla received B.A. degrees at the Instituto de Ciencias in Guadalajara (1944) and Loyola University in Los Angeles (1948).
Miguel León-Portilla. Professor Miguel León-Portilla is the foremost scholar on the language and culture of the Nahua people, also known as Aztecs, who had a well-established and distinguished civilization in Mexico long before the Spanish arrived in the early 16th century. With probing intelligence, lifelong perseverance, political savvy and ...
Jan 1, 2002 · January 1, 2002. Miguel León-Portilla. Miguel León-Portilla is a man smiled upon by the gods, or the muses—Clio, in particular. It was his good fortune as a young boy to have enjoyed the friendship of his uncle, Manuel Gamio, founder of Teotihuacán archaeology and of modern anthropology in Mexico. It was undoubtedly this uncle who ...