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The History of God
FIELD No. 0C5A
Visual depiction of Moctezuma II

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Vol. V · Deified Humans

Moctezuma II

Aztec emperor who was the earthly vessel of Huitzilopochtli

receiving Cortes from a jeweled palanquin as a possible god returning from the eastern sea

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This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.