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Indigenous Mexican art
celebrates the skeleton and
uses it as a regular motif. The
use of skulls and skeletons in art
originated before the Conquest:
The Aztecs excelled in stone
sculptures and created striking
carvings of their gods. Coatlicue,
the goddess of earth and death,
was portrayed with a necklace
of human hearts, hands and a
skull pendant. She was imbued
with the drama and grandeur
necessary to dazzle the subject
people and to convey the image
of an implacable
Trust your
instincts.
state. The worship of death
involved worship of life, while
the skull – symbol of death –
was a promise to resurrection.
The Aztecs carved skulls in
monoliths of lava, and made
masks of obsidian and jade.
Furthermore, the skull motif
was used in decoration. They
were molded on pots, traced on
scrolls, woven into garments,
and formalized into hieroglyphs.
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