12/9/2023 0 Comments Snake skull sketch![]() For example the Iroquois people have a creation story where a virgin is made pregnant. There are also a lot of other cultures who have a stories of a pregnancy that doesn't occur naturally. I don't really know the answer to the first question, though I am assuming it is a similar story to how greek woman were made pregnant. The Olmec mask was made over a thousand years prior to the Mexica, and its burial in Templo Mayor suggests that the Mexica found it precious and perhaps historically significant. ![]() For instance, they buried an Olmec mask made of jadeite, as well as others from Teotihuacan (a city northeast of modern-day Mexico City known for its huge monuments and dating roughly from the 1st century until the 7th century C.E.). Some offerings demonstrate the Mexica’s awareness of the historical and cultural traditions in Mesoamerica. Many of these offerings contain objects from faraway places-likely places from which the Mexica collected tribute. Other deposits related to warfare and sacrifice, containing items like human skull masks with obsidian blade tongues and noses and sacrificial knives. Some offerings contained items related to water, like coral, shells, crocodile skeletons, and vessels depicting Tlaloc. Over a hundred ritual caches or deposits containing thousands of objects have been found associated with the Templo Mayor. Her head and limbs are separated from her torso and are organized in a pinwheel shape. For the Mexica, nakedness was considered a form of humiliation and also defeat. Otherwise, Coyolxauhqui is shown naked, with sagging breasts and a stretched belly to indicate that she was a mother. ![]() Monster faces are found at her joints, connecting her to other female deities-some of whom are associated with trouble and chaos. Golden bells decorate her cheeks, feathers and balls of down (feathers) adorn her hair, and she wears elaborate earrings, fanciful sandals and bracelets, and a serpent belt with a skull attached at the back. But by far the most famous object decorating the Huiztilopochtli temple is the Coyolxauhqui monolith, found at the base of the stairs. Originally painted and carved in low relief, the Coyolxauhqui monolith is approximately eleven feet in diameter and displays the female deity Coyolxauhqui, or Bells-on-her-face.
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