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Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:49:22 +0100

Tlaltecuhtli

Monumental sculpture base with a bas-relief representing Tlaltecuhtli, the Earth deity. The Aztecs believed that everything existing on the face of the Earth were parts of the body of Tlaltecuhtli, and that she fed herself with the bodies and blood of the warriors who died in battle.

When this sculpture was in its original state, the relief made contact with the earth and could not be seen. This is because in the Pre-Hispanic world art complied above all with a symbolic and religious function.