Coyolxauhqui Stone

The Coyolxāuhqui Stone is a carved, circular Aztec stone, depicting the mythical being Coyolxāuhqui ("Bells-Her-Cheeks"), in a state of dismemberment and decapitation by her brother, the patron deity of the Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli. It was rediscovered in 1978 at the site of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, now in Mexico City.[2] This relief is one of the best known Aztec monuments and one of the few great Aztec monuments have been found fully in situ.[3]

Coyolxāuhqui Stone
Size3.4 m (10.5 ft) diameter
Createdc. 1473 CE[1]
DiscoveredFebruary 21, 1978
Templo Mayor site
Present locationTemplo Mayor Museum, Mexico City
CultureAztec

Notes
  1. "Coyolxauhqui". Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  2. See chapter "Art and Imperial Strategy in Tenochtitlan" by Emily Umberger, in Berdan et al. (1996, pp.85–108) and in particular pp.94–95.
  3. Boone, Elizabeth (1999). "THE "COATLICUES" AT THE TEMPLO MAYOR". Ancient Mesoamerica. 10: 189. doi:10.1017/s0956536199102098.
  4. MATOS MOCTEZUMA, EDUARDO (December 1985). "ARCHAEOLOGY & SYMBOLISM IN AZTEC MEXICO: THE TEMPLO MAYOR OF TENOCHTITLAN". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 53: 797–813. doi:10.1093/jaarel/liii.4.797.
  5. Townsend, Richard F. (2009). The Aztecs (3rd ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-500-28791-0.
  6. Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo (October 1983). "Symbolism of the Templo Mayor". The Aztec Templo Mayor: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks: 192.
  7. León-Portilla, Miguel (October 1983). "The Ethnohistorical Record for the Huey Teocalli of Tenochtitlan". The Aztec Templo Mayor: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks: 79, 81.
  8. Aveni, A. (April 1988). "Myth, Environment, and the Orientation of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan". American Antiquity. 53: 287–309. doi:10.2307/281020.
  9. "Coyolxauhqui". Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  10. Townsend, Richard F. (2009). The Aztecs (3rd ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-500-28791-0.
  11. Klein, Cecilia (1994). "Fighting with femininity: Gender and war in Aztec Mexico". Estudios de cultura náhuat. 24: 22.
  12. Townsend, Richard F. (2009). The Aztecs (3rd ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-500-28791-0.
  13. Townsend, Richard (1992). The Aztecs. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 161. ISBN 0500021139. OCLC 26265803.
  14. Juan, de Tovar (1585). The Tovar Codex.
  15. "Coyolxauhqui Monolith, c. 1500". Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Retrieved February 15, 2015.

References
Berdan, Frances F.; Richard E. Blanton; Elizabeth Hill Boone; Mary G. Hodge; Michael E. Smith; Emily Umberger (1996). Aztec Imperial Strategies. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. ISBN 0-88402-211-0. OCLC 27035231.
Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo (March 2008). "La vida y carrera de Eduardo Matos Moctezuma: Autobiografía" (PDF online reproduction). Ancient Mesoamerica (in Spanish). London and New York: Cambridge University Press. 19 (1): 3–11. doi:10.1017/S0956536108000242. ISSN 0956-5361. OCLC 21544811.


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