| Object Name: | Place where Coyolxauhqui fell down and was dismembered in the Great Temple Tenochtitlan |
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| Creation Date: | 1325-1521 A. D. | |
| Culture: | Aztec, Post-Classic | |
| Site: | Tenochtitlan | |
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| Image source: | © Dr. Manuel Aguilar | |
| Coyolxauhqui may have belonged to a group of fertility goddesses in Central Mexico, and her destruction reveals the rise of Huitzilopochtli’s cult. Often identified with the Moon, Coyolxauhqui is in this aspect also destroyed by the solar Huitzilopochtli; in fact, the round Coyolxauhqui stone at the Temple of Huitzilopochtli is periodically sliced by the sun, as if to replicate ongoing solar dominance. | ||
