But in her role as a childbirth deity, known as “the great woman in labor,” she ... indoors during such episodes of cosmic disorder. Aztec temples form the base of the Square of Three Cultures ...

In 1978, workers for a light and power company stumbled upon a sculpture of Coyolxauhqui, an Aztec-era goddess, at the Templo Mayor, or the Great Temple, according to a Nov. 11 news release from ...

Although it has been argued that other ancient wonders of comparable regard—such as the Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu in Peru, and the Aztec Temple in Tenochtitlan in Mexico—should have ...

The Temple of the Plumed Serpent is adorned with ... the pyramid-studded, pre-Aztec metropolis 30 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City. Dig sites sloshed over with water; a torrent of ...

The invaders crushed temples and raised churches all over the Aztec Empire ... could be compared to some of the great medieval cathedrals in Europe, certainly in size and grandeur." ...

and especially to the great feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl: "The snake was important for the Aztecs as a symbolism of regeneration and resurrection. In the temple of Quetzalcoatl in ...