Aztec Symbols

1790: Workers doing repairs in Mexico City unearth a massive stone bearing ancient symbols. It turns out to be a representation of the Aztec calendar and will eventually become a national treasure. The disc-shaped stone measured 12 feet in diameter and 3 feet thick. It was covered with pagan...  

“The rabbit was an Aztec symbol of drunkenness,” Feinman said. “The Aztec World” runs through April 19, 2009. It is not scheduled to appear in any other ...  

But recent years have brought new excavations in the metropolis of 23 million, and some of the finds of long-buried Aztec art have been spectacular. ...  

Scruffy Murphy covered the final 800m in 58.2sec. and he rated 1.59.7 to smash the WA record rate of 2.0.3 set by Aztec Symbol on July 22, 2005. ...  

... that of the Aztec, who saw her, and that of the Spanish conquerors, who now ruled his land. She has since become the patron and symbol of Mexico, ...  

Chen likes to make stoles which have motifs from her Chinese heritage and traditional Inca and Aztec, including the Peruvian technique used in weaving the ...  

... described, and revered by the ancient Aztec peoples. This flowering plant eventually became a symbol of Christmas to the Mexican culture and it became a ...  

Pre-Aztec figurine, today on display in Mexico, has arms crossed in "X" position. Bronze figurine of the demon God Pazuzu, 800-600 BC Pazuzu is still ...  

She also appeared with a combination of Iberian Catholic and Aztec symbols. The vibrant yellow spokes represent the rays of the sun, said Johnston, ...  

... Aztec dress brought forth the baskets of offerings. The two traditions converging during the Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass was the fitting symbol of the ...  

The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has advised France to re-examine the rule forbidding wearing of conspicuous religious symbols, ...  

The Christmas season coincided with a festival marked on the Aztec calendar honoring the birth of Huitzilopochtli, tutelary god of the sun. ...  

Students took their knowledge of the Aztec and Inca society and created an artifact that represented the religion, culture, history or scientific knowledge ...  

The Mexican artist Daniel Guzmán has a new show in New York until Jan. 10 that focuses more pointedly on Aztec imagery than his previous work and also looks at contemporary violence.  

... political satire about the tax man, the military and the like, they are also heavily laden with Aztec symbols like rabbits, skulls, snakes and the moon. ...