Head of Coyolxauhqui, National Museum of Anthropology, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City

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The head of Coyolxauhqui, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico. Coyolxauhqui was the Moon goddess according to Aztec mythology. Her name means Golden Bells. She was the daughter of the Earth goddess Coatlicue and the sister of the Sun god Huitzilopochtli. Coyolxauhqui encouraged her four hundred sisters and brothers to kill their dishonored mother. Coatlicue gave birth to Huitzilopochtli after a ball of feathers fell into the temple where she was sweeping and touched her, whereupon Huitzilopochtli sprang out of his mother as an adult fully armed and saved her. Coatlicue regretted such violence, thus Huitzilopochtli cut off Coyolxauhqui's head and threw it into the sky to form the Moon

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