The Templo Mayor (English: Main Temple) was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural...
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Estadio Akron (redirect from El Templo Mayor)
The Estadio Akron, formerly known as the Estadio Omnilife and Estadio Chivas (Estadio Chivas, Spanish pronunciation: [esˈtaðjo ˈtʃiβas]), is a multipurpose...
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archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City; from Indigenous writings; from eyewitness accounts by...
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Huītzilōpōchtli (section The Templo Mayor)
teixiptla were also worshipped, the most significant being the one at the Templo Mayor which was made of dough mixed with sacrificial blood. Warriors who died...
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Coyolxāuhqui (section Templo Mayor stone disk)
directed by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, to unearth the Huēyi Teōcalli (Templo Mayor in Spanish). The prominent position of the Coyolxāuhqui stone suggests...
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ceremonial center. There were about 45 public buildings, including: the Templo Mayor, which was dedicated to the Aztec patron deity Huitzilopochtli and the...
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Chantico (section Representation in the Templo Mayor)
feast. Chantico was also worshipped in the twenty ninth building of Templo Mayor according to Sahagún. According to Fray Juan de Torquemada, Chantico...
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Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli. It was rediscovered in 1978 at the site of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, now in Mexico City. This relief is one of the best known...
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the excavators to approximately AD 1000. During the 1930 excavation of Templo Mayor, the only fully polychrome chacmool to be found at that site was in its...
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human skulls at the Hueyi Tzompantli in the archeological zone of the Templo Mayor. A wide variety of interpretations of the Aztec practice of human sacrifice...
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