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Vol. II · Polytheism
Tonatiuh
Aztec sun god
the solar deity with his tongue of sacrificial flint extended at the center of the great sun stone, demanding the blood that keeps the sun in motion
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.