Quetzalcoatl

considered good and bad, chaos and order, male and female. Being that it was also a female, it was able to have four children. The four children represent the four directions: north, east, south and west. The gods were Huitzilopochtli (south), Quetzalcoatl (east), Tezcatlipoca (west), and Xipe Totec (north). The four gods began to create. They created water, and other gods, and the…

The historic city of Tenochtitlán, the heart of the Aztec Empire, is comparable to today’s New York City. It was the biggest city in all of Mesoamerica at its height in the 16th century boasting over 200,000 inhabitants. Yet in just a matter of years, the entire city as well as the whole Aztec Empire fell into ruin. How did such an impressive empire fall? The answer is a combination of factors. The Aztec Empire collapsed due to the lack of resources within the capital city of Tenochtitlán and…

In Artifact 1, a drawing from the Codex displays the gods Xipe Totec and Quetzalcoatl (Aztecs). One of the most important rituals in Aztec religion was human sacrifice. Thousands of people were sacrificed each year. There was 18 months in each cycle. Their was a ritual sacrifice in each month. A victim would be placed on a slab…

The research I looked into was the surrealist painters and looking into the fresco paintings and codex writing by the Mexica. When looking into surrealism I was drawn to Magritte’s The Flash and The blank signature. Images of Mictlantecuhtli and Quetzalcoatl influenced my work as well. They are the gods of death and life in the Aztec pantheon. My experience over all this semester in painting has been educational and enjoyable.…

I. ARCHITECTURE The Maya culture used architecture as a way to represent power. This culture achieved this representation by the creation and construction of massive monuments. Besides showing power, the Maya architecture had as a main objective to show the respect and passion to their religion, that is to say, that these enormous monuments were sacred for them, in other words, these constructions were seen as gifts from their gods. The Maya received inspiration from the Olmec and the…

sculptures would become an incarnation of a god by dressing it like it. To make it even more confusing, most deities were different versions of each other. Some of the more important gods were their creator god Tezcatlipoca, their rain god Tlaloc, and Quetzalcoatl the god of priest and learning. The Aztec people believed that the gods gave their life to create the world, so the Aztec believe they need repay the god’s sacrifice with their own sacrifices and offerings. it was common for priests…

Architectural structures such as the mound building ceremonial centers show a link to the Maya culture. For instance, the serpent shaped mound might have been in honor to the serpent god Quetzalcoatl. Kenimer mound, one of the five-sided mounds found in Georgia and connecting states, is the oldest. It was sculpted from a hill, which was the typical way the Itza Maya mounds were built in Mesoamerica 200-900 A.D. The archaeological site near…

The cities of Cairo, Egypt and Yucatan, Mexico are home to some of the most remarkable structures of architecture within the ancient world. Such structures as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and the El Castillo in Mexico. These two structures are located miles apart from one another on two vastly different continents. However, both share similarities within their structural shape. But differ in their overall structural design and purpose within their civilizations. The structural shape…

Student Name Geographical Setting: What continent? What Landforms? What important Places? Small islands in large lakes. This left little land for farming. Had highlands in southern Guatemala which contained valuable minerals. Lowlands were hot and dry. Also the valley of mexico in Mesoamerica was an very important lake that is still visited today. Political (Leadership, citizenship, decision-making institutions) The aztecs had allies to help in battle. Also they demanded tribute to whom…

religion is a religion based in the Western hemisphere, They are centered around worshipping Gods of nature (the sun God and moon god). The mayans are polytheistic which means they believe in multiple gods, they believe in the Gods Itzamná, Kukulcán (Quetzalcóatl), Bolon Tzacab and Chac. They please the Gods by making human and many other sacrifices. Many sacred places for worship were temples, one for sacrifice and one was sacred and couldn’t be touched. The Gods were allocated to the main…