Emperor
Cuauhtémoc, successor of Moctezuma. Cuauhtémoc was
the last Aztec emperor. He has been tortured by
the Spanish
to force him to tell the
place where the royal treasures were hidden.
Obsidian knives which one
used for ritual ceremonies.
The
God Xipe Totec. The priests
flayed of the skin of human sacrifices.
Those little grease ballscan
be from the inner site of the skin, bit it can also represent grains
of goldbecause Xipe Totec
is also the patron saint
of the gold adaptors. Putting on the cut
down skin, of the sacrificed
one, as a garb, should
be representing the birth of new life.
Piedra del Sol. (Stone of the
sun)
A monument depicting
thesun god Tonatiuh.
Human sacrifices dedicated to Tonatiuh were carried out on this
monument, where he appears
in a lot of conformations. The stone carries several signs which
mark the years. It is therefore a type
of calendar. The Toltec's
had 2 types of years in their daily life: A
solar year of 365 days, and a religious year of
260 days. The course of the years coincides once
in the 52 years. The Aztecs
feared a possible destruction of their world once in the
52 years, according to their belief. The stone of
the sun weighs 24 ton.
Go with the mouse over the picture
to SEE the original colors !!!
An Olmec head.
Olmecs were the first
large civilization in Mexico.
Most known of the Olmecs are the amazing heads of basalt
that are cut out at one piece. The one you see at the left is about 2
meters high!!
One suspected that thoseheads
represents Olmecs dominators.
Olmec
Wrestlers !!
Tlaloc, de rain god
Jade
stone mask.
Jade-stone is a stone type who was reserved to
the Maya-elite. It was a very precious trade
product. They made jewels, ritual objects and dead
masks of jade.
A model of Tenochtitlán,
with above it the city such as Hernandez Cortés
saw it as he arrived in 1519. Tenochtitlan was
the capital of the Aztecs and lay on an island in
the lake of Texcoco.
After conquest and destruction of the city, on that same
place was build the present-day Mexico-city.
During time the lake was filled up.
Souvenir bought in Monte Albán.
The entrance of the room "
De Mexica" (Mexica = Aztecs)
with on the background The Stone of the Sun.
Tot nu toe
betreft het een viertal vakanties: Suriname,
Egypte, Peru, Bolivia en Mexico. Verder een kort
fotoverslag van de zonsverduistering in 1999 te
noord-frankrijk in de buurt van het plaatsje
Spincourt. Er is een mogelijkheid om mijn
gastenboek te tekenen. Deze homepage is
ontworpen door Sander van Kuppevelt (sandervk).
Tlaloc, de r
Jade
