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Coatlicue statue, unknown Aztec artist, 1439 or 1491, Andesite, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico. Cōālīcue, or "Snakes-Her-Skirt", is an Aztec earth goddess who is known as the "mother of the gods". [15] As her name suggests, the main iconographic trait of Cōālīcue is her skirt made of interwoven snakes.
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.
It is currently on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. The Feathered Serpent is a prominent supernatural entity or deity, found in many Mesoamerican religions. It is still called Quetzalcoatl among the Aztecs, Kukulkan among the Yucatec Maya, and Q'uq'umatz and Tohil among the K'iche' Maya.
Created. 15th/16th century. Place. Made in Mexico. Present location. Room 27, British Museum, London. The Double-headed serpent is an Aztec sculpture. It is a snake with two heads composed of mostly turquoise pieces applied to a wooden base. It came from Aztec Mexico and might have been worn or displayed in religious ceremonies. [1]
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]
Xiuhcoatl. In Aztec religion, Xiuhcōātl [ʃiʍˈkoːaːt͡ɬ] was a mythological serpent, regarded as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli, the Aztec fire deity sometimes represented as an atlatl or a weapon wielded by Huitzilopochtli. Xiuhcoatl is a Classical Nahuatl word that translates as " turquoise serpent" and also carries the symbolic and ...
t. e. Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. [ 1 ] The Aztecs were Nahuatl -speaking groups living in central Mexico and much of their mythology is similar to that of other Mesoamerican cultures. According to legend, the various groups who became the Aztecs arrived from the North into the ...
Itzcoatl (Classical Nahuatl: Itzcōhuātl [it͡sˈkoːwaːt͡ɬ], "Obsidian Serpent", modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ) (1380–1440) was the fourth king of Tenochtitlan, and the founder of the Aztec Empire, ruling from 1427 to 1440. Under Itzcoatl the Mexica [2] of Tenochtitlan threw off the domination of the Tepanecs and established the ...