The Mighty AztecsAn account of the Aztecs: how their empire was destroyed by the Spanish conqueror, Cortes; how treasures of their art and elements of their culture survive today. |
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... Coyolxauhqui , decided to kill her . Born a warrior and fully armed , Huitzilopochtli saved his mother ; he beheaded and dismembered Coyolxauhqui . Priests of the Aztec Empire rolled the bodies of sacrificial victims down the steps of ...
... Coyolxauhqui , decided to kill her . Born a warrior and fully armed , Huitzilopochtli saved his mother ; he beheaded and dismembered Coyolxauhqui . Priests of the Aztec Empire rolled the bodies of sacrificial victims down the steps of ...
Page 78
... Coyolxauhqui , the slain sister of the god , is represented on a large circular stone . " She also had offerings buried in the four directions - one cache of female skulls was in the west . We have found another Coyolxauhqui stone be ...
... Coyolxauhqui , the slain sister of the god , is represented on a large circular stone . " She also had offerings buried in the four directions - one cache of female skulls was in the west . We have found another Coyolxauhqui stone be ...
Page 79
... Coyolxauhqui disk weighs some eight tons . The closest source for its andesite stone is a mountain 15 kilometers or 9 miles away . The monolith would have been dragged by ropes and rollers or floated on a raft to the great temple . The ...
... Coyolxauhqui disk weighs some eight tons . The closest source for its andesite stone is a mountain 15 kilometers or 9 miles away . The monolith would have been dragged by ropes and rollers or floated on a raft to the great temple . The ...
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