Legend of Aztec Goddess Sculpture the Promised Land
Legend of Aztec Goddess Sculpture the Promised Land
Aztec goddess
Human skull feet and hands decorated with claws appears with a skirt made of snakes and a necklace made of human hearts and hands Coatligue is an important goddess from Aztec mythology Her face is the shape of two snakes facing each other representing the earth fertility life and death and rebirth which is a characteristic that reflects the nature of the world The representative of the duality of the creator and the destroyer life symbol of creation and destruction at the same time
Aztec mythology The goddess Coatligue is miraculously pregnant symbolizing the birth of the gods and the destiny of the universe She gave birth to Huitzilopochtli the god of war and the future sun Coatligue gave birth to the moon stars and Huitzilopochtli the god of the sun and war in Aztec mythology She is depicted with the face of two snakes It is a prominent and well-known sculpture important in Aztec culture. A graceful warrior woman who meets her brother in battle This round stone sculpture of the Aztec god It is a picture of the Mexican Aztec moon god Coyolxauhqui In the early morning of February 21 1978 the team discovered a large circular stone pillar carved into the entire face of the pillar A special work this large stone carving shows her defeat of Huitzilopochtli.
The carved stone weighs 8 tons and is 10.5 feet in diameter It shows a powerful warrior dead with his head arms and legs separated which has become the national symbol of Mexico in the ancient Aztec legend of human civilization. Huitzilopochtli the god of war and the sun had to defeat his brothers and swing Coyolxauhqui On February 21 1978 a group of workers of the Mexico City Electric Company found a large stone shield covered in bas-relief while digging the stone they had excavated. It describes the defeat of Coyolxauhqui in Coatepec This discovery renewed interest in excavating the ancient city of Tenochtitlan beneath Mexico City Which led to the excavation of the Templo Mayor Huitzilopochtli hurled the Coyol Saoukwi into the sky becoming the moon This legend represents the victory of the order of the universe over chaos and the daily rebirth of the sun The attack began that this was dishonorable with 400 of his brothers This event symbolizes the birth of the god and the destiny of the universe of the feather ball that fell on her while she was sweeping the temple
Destiny of victory
Huitzilopochtli Aztec God The main god in Aztec mythology stands as the god of the sun and war His name often translated as hummingbird of the south or hummingbird of the left reflects his important qualities and the deep respect the Aztecs had for him Huitzilopochtli Huitzilopochtli was born from a feather ball that fell from heaven Known as the Aztec god of war and the sun the symbol is often associated with the image of the hummingbird and the eagle He was called the Mexican god of war the patron god of the Mexican tribes Legendary story Coatelicue On a small hut on the sacred peak of Coatepec many beautiful feathers fell from the sky which contained heaven and fell in front of Coatelicue She slowly picked them up and placed them in her chest in Coatelicue's heart The feathers miraculously disappeared in her arms until she became pregnant and gave birth to a son who represented the ideal of the Mexican warrior It is not known who was responsible for this pregnancy
Huitzilopochtli a central deity in Aztec mythology stands as a god of the sun and war.
Coatligue's eldest daughter but Coyolxauhqui could not stand the shame and dishonor of Coatelicue's pregnancy so she conspired with her four hundred brothers to kill her mother Coatligue. One of the brothers disagreed and warned the Aztec goddess mother who gave birth to the moon stars and Huitzilopochtli the god of the sun and war Huitzilopochtli had to fight her sister Coyolxauhqui, the god of the moon and four hundred brothers who represented the stars in the southern sky to kill her mother Huitzilopochtli whose face was painted blue and whose head was decorated with eagle feathers was born a fully armed warrior.
Head of Coyolxāuhqui circa 1500 / diorite; 80 x 80 x 65 cm
National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico City)
The warrior god immediately ran to his sister and with his powerful weapon xiuhcoatl which was actually a ray of the sun killed his rebellious sibling from the mother goddess Coatelicue. Huitzilopochtli killed his sister Coyolxauhqui chopped her sister into pieces and threw the pieces down from the mountain The head of the sister goddess was thrown into the sky and became the moon while his brother Huitzilopochtli became the stars in the sky
Disk depicting a dismembered Coyolxāuhqui, which was found during construction in 1978 in Mexico City.
Its discovery led to the excavation of the Huēyi Teōcalli.
The Promised Land
The Promised Land of the Ancestors in the land of Tenochtitlan now Mexico City This important legend tells of a time during their migration Coyolxauhqui is closely related to the legend of Huitzilopochtli The death of Coyolxauhqui takes place during the migration of the Aztecs from the Aztecs to Tenochtitlan They settled on the sacred mountain Coatepec or Hill of the Serpents which was located next to the city of Tula the Mexican god of war The Aztec and the main god who led the Mexicans to Tenochtitlan
the Promised Land Coyolxauhqui also known as Centzon Huitznahua the leader of the 400 brothers means one who is decorated with bells in the Nahuatl language The death of his sister Coyolxauhqui at the hands of Huitzilopochtli is considered to symbolize the daily victory of the sun the association of Huitzilopochtli over the moon and stars and/or light over darkness According to Mexican Aztec legend
