National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico - Aztec sculpture 'Stone of the Sun'. It has been used to stage the fights of warriors in the Tla

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National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico - Aztec sculpture 'Stone of the Sun'. It has been used to stage the fights of warriors in the Tlacaxipehualiztli ceremony. In the disk, the face of Xiuhtecuhtli can be recognized, holding a pair of human hearts and showing his tongue, transformed in a sacrificial knife.

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