Coyolxauhqui Stone from Templo Mayor | Aztec Art History

The Coyolxauhqui Stone comes from Templo Mayor in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. This stone was discovered in 1978 and led to the finding of Tenochtitlan underneath today's Mexico City. (Incredible!)
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0:00 - Discovery of the Coyolxauhqui Stone, Templo Mayor, and Tenochtitlan
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1:26 - Tenochtitlan map and origin story
2:24 - Aztec human sacrifices
2:44 - Templo Mayor
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4:56 - The Coyolxauhqui Stone (story, description, and anlysis)
9:10 - Aztec and Mesoamerican art connection
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File:Templo Mayor 2015 001.jpg, by Mike Peel (en.wikipedia.o..., CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Comment below with questions and insights!

[@makaylalake6938]

I had no idea mexico city was built on another city! So interesting!

[@horaciocapanelli-soto4710]

Mexico City was built on another city that was built on a LAKE.
😉

[@SpencerFH]

Love this video, super informative. Great job with the pronunciation btw! I know it can be rough

[@Kinl23]

Perhaps its a celestial story and the stone represents the moon.

[@ArtHistorywithAlder]

Thanks for sharing!

[@ConstantGardener-q9q]

That is exactly right. See my comments

[@suzannehudson6589]

Super interesting!

[@ArtHistorywithAlder]

I think so too!

[@arturofranco233]

Coyolxauhqui represents the phases of the Moon, Coyolxauhqui (Moon) is cut by the rays of the sun (xiuhcoatl) and makes the stars (centzon huitznahua) disappear, it is a somewhat violent metaphor

[@josephmontoya3678]

Awesome video thank you

[@ArtHistorywithAlder]

Glad you enjoyed, and thanks for watching

[@ConstantGardener-q9q]

These myths are metaphors that speak to the Astec’s deep connection to the cosmos. She and her 400 siblings represent the moon and the stars; they “attack” the earth (their mother) as they rise in the east, hover over her and then set in the sky in the west. The sun (the son) destroys the moon and the stars when he rises up in the sky in the east, fully formed - seemingly from out of mother earth. In this sense, the earth “gives birth” to the sun. The moon is also cut into different pieces over the course of the month when the earth passed between the moon and the sun. Conversely, the moon sometimes “attacks” the sun during a solar eclipse and is therefore seen as dangerous.

[@fabiante]

Since this is a metaphor and science and myth go by hand, this is exactly why all the knowledge (treasure) is been misinterpreted. Don't take me wrong, I think is fantastic that you are interested in all of this knowledge. There is no sacrifice, there is no dismembering of body parts. It's all just a metaphor and interpretation of the day. Now imagine all other statues and monolits with this in mind that they represent science and biology. This is exactly why people misinterpret all and think that a huge serpent with feathers will appear one day flying around the world. The idiocicracy of all towns in Mexico, towns of native America and towns in the south is magical. That is why all of this knowledge is esoteric... not everyone can understand it. Tlazcamati miak!

[@Songofenoch]

Huitzilopochtli means hummingbird of the South

Helllo! Do you speak Spanish?

[@ArtHistorywithAlder]

Hi, Pedro! I do not speak Spanish 😕

[@FEdeRioBravo]

So she is impregnate by a feather ( while she found while sweeping, later the feather is missing, but she pregnant ).
The child speaks to the mother while still in the womb. He born full adult size and ready to fight .
Mythology I think is a recycled account of the fallen angles ( Gods ) & there offspring ( Simi gods ). Because the offspring off the fallen angles turn to be the Giants.
Could that be an account fallen angles picking women to have children with ?

[@Ahuizotl_Yolotl]

This is a proof that you believe in "fallen angels" and thus you will fit your preconceptions in any religion.