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Visual depiction of Coatlicue

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Coatlicue

Aztec earth mother


fearsome skirt of writhing serpents, necklace of hearts and skulls, clawed hands raised as she gives birth to Huitzilopochtli

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.