Toltec Copal Burner Goblet (Mictlantecuhtli God of Death)
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Mexican Style Decor using Pre Columbian Artwork
The creation of the pre Columbian world is commonly depicted in artwork. It chronicles how gods have created the world five times.
According to the Aztecs, from total void and darkness Ometecutli ("Lord of Duality") created himself. The Lord of Duality was a union of opposites: good and bad, chaos and order, male and female. Being both male and female ("Lord and Lady of Duality"), Ometecutli was able to conceive children. The Lord and Lady of Duality produced four god-children; Huizilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca and Xipe Totec. Each child became a god in this world and was assigned one of the four cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
Four ages, or "suns" of 2028 years ensued. Each of these "suns" was terminated with great destruction due to the infighting among the child gods as they faught among each other for power. All persons in each of the previous four suns were destroyed or or converted to something else.
In the total darkness after the termination of the fourth sun, Quetzalcoatl (known as the plumed serpent) descended into the underworld to bring up the bones of the dead. They would be used to bring to life the people who would live in the pre Columbian "fifth sun". In this fifth current sun Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, gods ancient and powerful together made heaven, earth, and all inhabitants.
The pre Columbian Aztecs, also known as Mexica believed that the god Huitzilopochtli himself frequently intervened in their behalf bestowing his blessings upon them and allowed them to subjugate other tribes in the area. Through his guidance the mighty Aztec empire grew. And, the mighty aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was established as the center of th world.
But the world was an uncertain and fluid place, the sun could not move across the sky by himself. Unhappily, when it first came into the sky, it couldn't move at all. \o remedy this situation, the gods themselves had to practise blood sacrifices to provide energy to the sun and allow it to carry on its daily journey. And now, humans were expected to repay the debt, and keep the sun moving, with their own blood sacrifices. Thus the sun required both the blood of gods and humans to continue its journey and it was Huitzilopochtli, the great warrior god in particular who fought for the sun. Warriors, gods and human alike, fought to offer up sustenance to allow the sun to rize every day and keep moving across the sky.
These scenes are depicted in artwork such as the Aztec sun stone (more commonly known as the Aztec calendar), etched in stone on temples, in pottery and other items today used as Mexican style decor.
Aztec artwork in use today as Mexican style decor includes ceremonial items used by Aztec priests to invoke the Aztec gods. Each ceremony began with the burning of the sacred copal, in ceramics that had been purified.
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