Coyolxauhqui: The Dismembered Mexica Goddess Who Refuses to Be Forgotten
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Coyolxauhqui: The Dismembered Mexica Goddess Who Refuses to Be Forgotten

Beneath modern Mexico City lay the dismembered body of a Mexica deity. When Coyolxauhqui's monumental stone was rediscovered in 1978, it helped reopen the sacred world of Tenochtitlan. But her history is far more complicated than the modern label “Aztec moon goddess” suggests.

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