Coatlicue

#1. The name of the statue is The Coatlicue statue. It is eight feet and nine inches tall. The Coatlicue statue is located in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. It is thought to be created between 1300 and 1500 in Tenochtitlan, Mexico, it was discovered on 13 August 1790, in the front of the main plaza in Mexico City, but was reburied because of its terrifying depictions. It is made out of andesite, a volcanic type of rock from a specific area. #2. At first glance, a serpent type person is depicted, but upon closer review the statue discloses so much more. The feet are like eagle talons. They are shape and do not look like a human’s foot what so ever. Just above the feet there are long feathers, that aids in the assumption…

1. The sculpture the Goddess Coatlicue is around 8 feet 6 inches, or 2.65 meters. The piece was made circa 1500 by the Aztecs in Mexico. It is located in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. 2. There is only one being depicted in the statue. The statue shows someone with a necklace made up of what appears to be hands, hearts and skulls from humans. Under the necklace appear to be human breasts. The skirt on the statue is made up of snakes that are overlapping. The feet and hands…

1. The title of this sculpture is The Goddess Coatlicue. She stands at eight feet, six inches, and is located in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. An Aztec sculptor created her out of an igneous rock called basalt. This black or gray colored rock is fine-grained and forms from lava as small amounts shoot out of volanoes and cool quickly. This statue was originally discovered in 1790, but was immediately reburied due to its terrifying nature.…

Evaluating The Coatlicue One of the most mysterious archeological discoveries in recent history was made in Mexico City in the latter years of the 17th century. A nine feet statue made out of stone and finely carved was found but immediately reburied. The statue was so shocking that incited terror and huge admiration to the people that found it. The statue depicts the Aztec goddess Coatlicue which means “snakes-hers-skirt” in the native tongue of the Aztecs, which is the mother of all other…

Herran passed away in 1918, and the mural was never finished, but the pieces of it tie together the Aztec earth-mother god, Coatlicue, as well as Christ on the cross using heavy symbolism. In the center of Jesus’ body, there is a Mexican calavera, or skull which is meant to further embody traditional Mexican culture. The stone deity is depicted as a large statue with Jesus laced into it, and Indians to the left and Spaniards to the right, worshipping this idol. They each appear to be offering up…

Long ago before Earth was even a planet there was just space in the universe. Nothing but dark matter, maybe even stars or other galaxies scattered apart billions of light years. There was one goddess named Coatlicue who was a woman that had created Earth all by herself. One day when Coatlicue went for a walk around the land, she found a ball of hummingbird feathers. She pondered whether she should keep them. After decades of pondering, she finally decided to tuck in the ball of hummingbird…

Freedom and sovereignty is a dream of every territory, country or society. As evidenced in The La Frontera, Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe by Alma Lopez and the BrokenSpears the political, social, and psychic are very significant in every society. In La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua talks about the meaning of the pre-conquest fertility goddess (Coatlicue) to the current Chicana feminist fights. Anzaldua explains that the unique characters of Coatlicue that disrupts the complacency of life are the one…

Women are the centerpiece of Mejica culture as evidenced by the temezcal, the women’s holy place at Tepeyac, Cosmic Mother religion, Coatlicue, and Tonantzin Guadalupe. All of the aforementioned topics revolve around women in that they either are women, resemble their anatomy, or are meant for women. A temezcal is a Nahuat word that translates to bath house. They were very prominent throughout southern and central Mexico in many towns, no matter the size of the town. For the Mejica, cleanliness…

narratives were also part of a wider strategy devised by rulers to construct state power. To show how women were dangerous if they were ever to have power, huge monumental works were created that do not show women goddesses in their glory or as strong and powerful, but the narratives they portray are that they are deemed the enemies of the people and were punished which is why they are shown in promiscuous art works or were seen as decapitated such as the sculpture of Coatlicue. The Aztecs…

They believed that one day while doing housework that an earth goodness known as Coatlicue was impregnated by a ball of feathers. This led to Coyolxauhqui and 400 stars of the southern sky to try and kill Coatlicue which they did by slicing off her head but her unborn child Huitzilopochtl leaped from her body fully grown and killed Coyolaxuhqui with obsidian and chopped her and her brothers which is said to be a metaphor for the way the sun overrides the moon and stars when it rises each…