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Prehispanic Line / Historia

Tlahuiz THE MASTER OF THE DAWN

The planet Venus in its morning aspect, also the astral aspect or the split of “QUETZALCOATL”, the "Feathered Snake", carrying the badge that identifies it: wearing in his head a tocado (symbol) of the ruler class with costly and exotic stripes of Quetzal's feathers, a nose ring of jade, an emerald earring and a feathered cap. His twin is "XOLOTL", a monstrous dog that is Venus in his evening aspect. Both represent the fight of the opposite that integrate the whole one: QUETZALCOATL.

Quincunce

Representation of the five regions of the world: the four cardinals points and the earth in the center. It was used in many mesoamerican cultures. It is formed by squares and in its interior are located the five points of the universe, decorated with beautiful feathers in its lower part and petals in the superior part.

Xiuitl HERB JUST BORNED

Stylized stoneglyph of the birth of the first herb in the fields during the spring. Formed by a triangular figure (an inverted “V”) that represents the signs of the solar brightness and growing herb. To the center appears a “CHALCHIUITL”, a precious stone. It is based on the numeral "3" or "EYI" or "YEI" which represents 3 “CHALCHIUITES”, consider to be the best food for the renewal.

 


Quetzal SNAKE HEAD

The drawing represents the stone with the snakes heads, located in "The Temple of QUETZALCOATL", in TEOTIHUACAN. The grotesque mask in its head emerges from an eleven petals flower, and it is carved on a grooved disk: the sun.

In the panels the snakes have waving bodies covered with stylized green feathers. The icon described in NAHUATL, (the possible Teotihuacan language) means by its roots: COATL - snake and QUETZALLI - green feather; synthesizing it as QUETZALCOATL "The Feathered Snake". However, the name of this Teotihuacan deity should not be confuse with another Aztec God of the same name.

The icon Saurian-Serpentino represents the Teotihuacan deity of the terrestrial water (lakes, gaps, rivers, sea currents) and the agriculture; should have been called EHECACOMIXTLI: rain-cloud snake, because it represented the waving of the world. It is also called "Crocodile-Dragon" god, the Monster of the ground charged by the water.

For the Mexicans this deity derived in the divine twins: EHECATL "Lord of the Wind" and in QUETZALCOATL "The Feathered Snake": Master of the creation and maintenance of life, protector of the wise, professors and elderly. Its color is the white, its star is Venus, it’s element is the Wind and it’s plant is the Cotton. The metaphor means that the ground (COATLICUE) is our mother, the snake its common children and the feathered snake the children being exceeded and elevated to heaven.


Acatl CANE

13th symbol of the days in the NAHUATL calendar, associated with the period of rains. The cane in the water that forms its base represents the idea of suffering. A small cane is a small pain: also called: ACATZIN.


Omeyotl THE DUAL ESSENCE OF BEING

OME-two and YOTL-the essence of being, OMETEOTL is therefore the master of the duality. Ideogram that represents the unit of the whole, the circle, sign of the perfection. It is seen like the sun as the center of the world.

The equilibrium is represented by the four fundamental directions upon the space they represent: the four cardinal points, that at the same time symbolize the rhythm of the earth’s movement, the four elements and the four seasons of the world.

To the interior of the circle the symbols complement the Aztec vision which says that all things are conformed by contrary and united dualities, interdependent and complementary. Two internal strengths that produce the evolution of the being.