![]() ![]() ![]() In the ancient Americas, gold, silver, and copper were used primarily to create regalia and ritual objects-metals were only secondarily used to create weapons and tools. Of ancient American art and culture, showcasing more than 300 objectsĭrawn from more than 50 museums in 12 countries The exhibition present a new understanding What we present in this show are not only spectacular artworks, but also rare and enormously important objects that escaped destruction.” And time has taken a heavy toll on featherworks and textiles, which were considered more precious than gold by many indigenous societies. “Countless works of gold and silver were melted down, and delicate native manuscripts were deliberately burned as part of campaigns to stamp out native religions. “Ideas about artistic production in the ancient Americas have traditionally been based on works in ceramic and stone-objects of durable materials,” “But there were also exquisitely worked objects of rare and fragile materials, most of which were destroyed at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Pearson Curator of the Arts of the Ancient Americas The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, 2015 Benefit Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2016 Serpent Labret with Articulated Tongue, Gold, Aztec, A.D. And as you all know, her plan fails, the child is born and there is no hope of any of them winning.Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas Coyolxauhqui was angered by that and hatched a plot to kill her mother before she has the chance to give birth to the baby that would surpass his siblings. However, it was rumored that the child growing in Coatlicue's womb would be the most powerful yet and be the favorite. Yes, all 400 of them were Coatlicue's children. So, Coyolxauhqui was angry because prior to the birth of this child, she was the most powerful of all her mothers children. I do know for certain the answer to the second question. So, it's common for a pregnancy to occur in myths without a logical explanation. The maya have a creation story where the woman eats a piece from a tree and becomes pregnant with twins. For example the Iroquois people have a creation story where a virgin is made pregnant. There are also a lot of other cultures who have a stories of a pregnancy that doesn't occur naturally. ![]() ![]() I don't really know the answer to the first question, though I am assuming it is a similar story to how greek woman were made pregnant. For instance, they buried an Olmec mask made of jadeite, as well as others from Teotihuacan (a city northeast of modern-day Mexico City known for its huge monuments and dating roughly from the 1st century until the 7th century C.E.). The Olmec mask was made over a thousand years prior to the Mexica, and its burial in Templo Mayor suggests that the Mexica found it precious and perhaps historically significant. Some offerings demonstrate the Mexica’s awareness of the historical and cultural traditions in Mesoamerica. Many of these offerings contain objects from faraway places-likely places from which the Mexica collected tribute. Other deposits related to warfare and sacrifice, containing items like human skull masks with obsidian blade tongues and noses and sacrificial knives. Some offerings contained items related to water, like coral, shells, crocodile skeletons, and vessels depicting Tlaloc. Over a hundred ritual caches or deposits containing thousands of objects have been found associated with the Templo Mayor. Her head and limbs are separated from her torso and are organized in a pinwheel shape. For the Mexica, nakedness was considered a form of humiliation and also defeat. Otherwise, Coyolxauhqui is shown naked, with sagging breasts and a stretched belly to indicate that she was a mother. Monster faces are found at her joints, connecting her to other female deities-some of whom are associated with trouble and chaos. Golden bells decorate her cheeks, feathers and balls of down adorn her hair, and she wears elaborate earrings, fanciful sandals and bracelets, and a serpent belt with a skull attached at the back. Snake balustrade and undulating serpent, photo: Lauren Kilroy-EwbankBut by far the most famous object decorating the Huiztilopochtli temple is the Coyolxauhqui monolith, found at the base of the stairs. Originally painted and carved in low relief, the Coyolxauhqui monolith is approximately eleven feet in diameter and displays the female deity Coyolxauhqui, or Bells-on-her-face. ![]()
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