Tlaltecuhtli
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Tlaltecuhtli is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican deity worshipped primarily by the Mexica people. Sometimes referred to as the "earth monster," Tlaltecuhtli's dismembered body was the basis for the world
Monolith of Tlaltecuhtli discovered in Mexico City in 2006 (1502 CE)
Tlaltecuhtli's head is shown flung back with a serpent tongue and a sacrificial knife between her teeth
Annotations detailing the iconography of the Tlaltecuhtli Monolith (located at the Museum of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, Mexico)
Depiction of Tlaltecuhtli in the Codex Borbonicus (ca. 1520), shown with a flint knife between her teeth
Aztec sun stone
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The Aztec sun stone is a late post-classic Mexica sculpture housed in the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, and is perhaps the most famous work of Mexica sculpture. It measures 3.6 metres i
Tlaltecuhtli
…for fire and water — traditional symbols of war. Historian Mary Miller even suggests that Tlaltecuhtli may be the face in the center of the famous Aztec Calendar Stone (Piedra del Sol), where she symbolizes the end of the 5th and final Aztec cosmos. Tlaltecuhtli appears in the Aztec calendar as the 2nd of the 13 deity…
The Sun stone on display at National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City
Popocatépetl fumarola
This ritual object bears Sun Stone motifs
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