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Double temple (model)

Unlike the Maya, for example, the Aztecs in the central Mexican highlands often erected double or twin temples on the pyramids. The two temples on the main pyramid of the sacred Templo Mayor district in the Aztec capital of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, for example, were dedicated to the rain god Tlaloc and the supreme god Huitzilipochtli. In the temples, far away from the people, the priests communicated with the deities and made offerings. Models of temple pyramids as well as small images of the gods made of clay or stone may have stood on the household altars in the people's huts and were used for daily worship. In most cases, it was the gods of water and fertility, i.e. the most important of the pantheon for a population engaged in agriculture, who were worshipped in private and implored with offerings for favourable influence. (M Gaida 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Azteken
Object type
Double temple (model)
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 20 x 18,2 x 17,2 cm
Gewicht: 2,07 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 2429

Provenance and sources

when
Postclassical
where
Mexico
who
Azteken

who
Carl Adolf Uhde (1792-02-02 - 1856-11-17) - Collectors

Description
Purchase 1862

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