Stone of the Sun #1
by John Bartosik
Title
Stone of the Sun #1
Artist
John Bartosik
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Photograph - Photograph
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At the museum of anthropology, yhe on sculpture which identifies the Mexicas (Aztecs) above all the others is the Stone of the Sun,discovered in 1790, in the Plaza Mayor of the capital of Mexico, Because of its symbolic content, with the names of the days and the cosmogonic suns, it was incorrectly identified as he Aztec Calendar.
This is a large gladatorrial sacrificial altar, known as temalacatl, which was not finished because of a deep crack that runs from one side to the center of the piece. Despite the fracture, it must have been used to stage the fights between warriors in the tlacaxipehualiztli ceremony.
The face of Xiuhtcuhtli-emerging from the earth hole, holding a pair of human hearts and showing his tongue transformed in a sacrificial knife. He is surrounded by the four suns that preceded the Fifth Sun in turn inscribed in the sequence of the 20 day signs, framed with the figure of the Sun with its four beams symmetrically accompanied by two Xiuhcoatl or "Fire Serpents", which carry it across the heavens.
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