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A cuauhxicalli or quauhxicalli (Nahuatl: [kʷaːʍʃiˈkalːi], meaning "eagle gourd bowl") was an altar-like stone vessel used by the Aztec in sacrificial ceremonies, [1] believed to be for holding human hearts. [2] [3] A cuauhxicalli would often be decorated with animal motifs, commonly eagles or jaguars. [4] Another kind of cuauhxicalli is the Chacmool-type, which is shaped as a reclining person holding a bowl on his belly. [5]
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Jaguar-shaped cuauhxicalli in the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico -
Cuauhxicalli in the shape of an eagle, from the Templo Mayor -
Video of a cuauhxicalli, National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico
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Annotated image of a Cuauhxicalli sculpture
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References
- ^ Jordan, Keith (2020-01-01). "Crowned Not Bound". Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. 2 (1): 56–77. doi: 10.1525/lavc.2020.210005. ISSN 2576-0947.
- ^ "Ocelotl Cuauhxicalli". Google Arts and Culture. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ Boone, Elizabeth Hill (1987). The Aztec Templo Mayor: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 8th and 9th October 1983. Dumbarton Oaks. ISBN 978-0-88402-149-0.
- ^ Boone, Elizabeth H. (1989). "Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 79 (2): i–107. doi: 10.2307/1006524. ISSN 0065-9746. JSTOR 1006524.
- ^ Brittenham, Claudia (2023-01-17), "CHAPTER 3 POWER Carving the Undersides of Aztec Sculpture", Unseen Art, University of Texas Press, pp. 89–126, doi: 10.7560/325964-006, ISBN 978-1-4773-2597-1, retrieved 2023-02-26
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