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The Aztecs believed that Huitzilopochtli needed daily nourishment (tlaxcaltiliztli) in the form of human blood and hearts and that they, as “people of the sun,” were required to provide Huitzilopochtli with his sustenance. [18] When the Aztecs sacrificed people to Huitzilopochtli, the victim would be placed on a sacrificial stone. [19]
Quetzalcōātl. God of life, light and wisdom, lord of the day and the winds. Ruler of the West [ 1] Quetzalcoatl ( / ˌkɛtsəlkoʊˈætəl / [ 3]) [ pron 1] (Nahuatl: "Feathered Serpent") is a deity in Aztec culture and literature. Among the Aztecs, he was related to wind, Venus, Sun, merchants, arts, crafts, knowledge, and learning.
Xipe Totec is represented wearing flayed human skin, usually with the flayed skin of the hands falling loose from the wrists. [26] His hands are bent in a position that appears to possibly hold a ceremonial object. [27] His body is often painted yellow on one side and tan on the other. [26] His mouth, lips, neck, hands and legs are sometimes ...
Coatlicue. The Coatlicue statue is one of the most famous surviving Aztec sculptures. It is a 2.52 metre (8.3 ft) tall andesite statue by an unidentified Mexica artist. [ 1] Although there are many debates about what or who the statue represents, it is usually identified as the Aztec deity Coatlicue ("Snakes-Her-Skirt"). [ 2]
In Aztec religion, Coyolxāuhqui ( Nahuatl pronunciation: [kojoɬˈʃaːʍki], "Painted with Bells" [ 4]) is a daughter of the goddess Cōātlīcue ("Serpent Skirt"). She was the leader of her brothers, the Centzon Huitznahua ("Four Hundred Huitznahua"). [ 4] She led her brothers in an attack against their mother, Cōātlīcue, when they ...
Coatlicue is represented as a woman wearing a skirt of writhing snakes and a necklace made of human hearts, hands, and skulls. Her feet and hands are adorned with claws and her breasts are depicted as hanging flaccid from pregnancy. Her face is formed by two facing serpents, which represent blood spurting from her neck after she was decapitated ...
Coyolxauhqui Stone. The Coyolxāuhqui Stone is a carved, circular Aztec stone, depicting the mythical being Coyolxāuhqui ("Bells-Her-Cheeks"), in a state of dismemberment and decapitation by her brother, the patron deity of the Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli. It was rediscovered in 1978 at the site of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, now in Mexico ...
Huitzilopochtli is presented as the deity who guided the long migration the Aztecs undertook from Aztlan, their traditional home, to the Valley of Mexico. During the journey his image, in the form of a hummingbird, was carried upon the shoulders of priests, and at night his voice was heard giving orders.