Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City

Creation myth, with Tlaltecuhtli, earth lord or earth monster, skulls and crossbones, and the birth of Tezcatlipoca from the centre of the earth, stone relief fragments, Mexica, Aztec, from Tenochtitlan, reused as a column in the colonial era by the Spanish, in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, or National Museum of Anthropology, opened 1964, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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