Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City
Tlaltecuhtli, earth monster or earth lord goddess, in crouching childbirth pose with skulls tied to limbs, circular relief on the underside of a sculpture, detail, andesite, Mexica, Aztec, from Teotihuacan, in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, or National Museum of Anthropology, opened 1964, holding national collections of archaeology and ethnography, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. Images of Tlaltecuhtli were often beneath sculptures so they were in contact directly with the earth. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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