Life and death in the Templo Mayor
by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
In 1978, workmen in downtown Mexico City accidentally discovered a beautifully preserved monolithic sculpture at the foot of the main temple of the Aztecs. This important find led to a massive excavation that continues today under the direction of archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.
The great temple, now known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolized the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and underworld met. In Life and Death in the Templo Mayor, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme.
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Aztecs, Antiquities, Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico), Religion, Indians of mexico, religion, Mexico, antiquities, Indians of mexico, antiquities, HISTORY, Opgravingen, Azteken, Tempels, Astecas, Arqueologia/pre-historia (Mexico), Mitologia e mito, Mythologie aztèque, Religion aztèque, Temple de Huitzilopotchli, Templo MayorPlaces
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Life and death in the Templo Mayor
1995, University Press of Colorado
in English
0870814001 9780870814006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130) and index.
"Appéndix 2, Nahua poems" (p. 101-125) contains 25 poems from Poesía náhuatl, translated and edited by Angel María Garibay.
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