Happy New Year’s! Instead of fireworks, let’s ring in the new year with a superb photostream from Flickriver user Ilhuicamina. This set is of exceptional quality and covers many significant artworks excavated from the Templo Mayor and safeguarded by INAH at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Take a look!
Click HERE to visit Ilhuicamina’s Aztec Art Photostream!
January 1, 2013 | Categories: Arts & Sciences, Culture, History, Media, People, Photo, Places, Preconquest Era, Religion, Things | Tags: adorar, amanteca, antes de la conquista, art, arte, artefacto, artifact, atl tlachinolli, Aztec, Azteca, ética, belief, Calendar Stone, ceremonia, ceremony, Chalchihuitlicue, Chicomecoatl, Coatlicue, corn, corn god, corn goddess, Coyolxauhqui, crafts, creencia, cuauh, cuauhxicalli, Cuauhxicalli de Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina, Cuauhxicalli of Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina, cultura, culture, deified knife, dios, dioses, Eagle Warrior, emperor, ethics, faith, fe, feather, featherwork, filosofía, fish, Flickriver, flint, foto, frog, glyph, god, goddess, gods, Huehueteotl, Huey Teocalli, idea, Ilhuicamina, INAH, indígena, Indian, indigenous, indio, la religión de los aztecas, maize, mask, Mesoamerica, Mexica, Mexica-Tenochca, Mexicayotl, Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Mictecahichuatl, Mictlancihuatl, Mictlantecuhtli, Mictlanteuctli, Moctezuma, Montezuma, moral, morality, Motecuhzoma, Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina, Nahua, Napatecuhtli, National Museum of Anthropology, obsidian, offering, ofrenda, personified knife, philosophy, photo, photostream, picture, Piedra de Coyolxauhqui, piedra de sacrificios, pintura, pre-Columbian, pre-Conquest, Pre-Hispanic, Precolumbian, preconquest, Prehispanic, reflexión, religion, sacrificial stone, sculpture, shield, statue, storm, Sun Stone, technology, tecnología, tecpatl, temple, Templo Mayor, Tenochca, Tenochtitlan, Teocalli de la Guerra Sagrada, Teocalli of Sacred War, teología, Teotl, Tepeyollotl, Teteo, theology, thought, Tlaloc, Toxcatl, tradicional, traditional, worship, Xilonen, Xipe Totec, Xiuhtecuhtli, Xiuhteuctli | Leave a comment
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