Templo Mayor 27

Coyolxhauqui

Photograph: Ismael Moreno Luna - Text: Susana Rodróguez Licea

Person being born from the Serpent.

On this incomparable piece of the Mexica culture, one person in a meditative position can be seen, coming out from the jaws of a serpent with a perfect cubic shape. The stylistic figure of the person is wrapped in the skin of the serpent, from whose superior part emerges his head. On his back can be found a turtle, a marine element symbol of the Cosmos. Who is born from the Serpent (Wisdom) through the elimination of the inhuman elements of the Psyche gets the Knowledge of the Cosmos.