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What did the Aztecs call the Noche buena? What did the name mean?

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Answer:

the flower of the good night

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After the Aztecs were conquered by the Spaniards and missionaries began converting the natives to Catholicism in the sixteenth-century, the plant became known as the flower of the good night, which translates to noche buena.

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Noche buena is Christmas eve, the name came from the flower Poinsettia which bloomed only that day, being called "la flor de Nochebuena"
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