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Word: coyolxauhqui (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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Goddess & Snakes. Ultimately, of course, a museum can only be as great as its contents. Mexico's century-old collection is one of the world's most comprehensive records of antiquity. Of more than 100,000 relics, two of the finest are the Coyolxauhqui, a 1,543-lb. moon goddess of jadeite whose grinning face is fringed with golden rattlesnakes, and a Western Hemisphere familiar, the 25-ton stone disk whose signs and symbols marked the hours and seasons and mapped the Aztec universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: A Living Temple | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

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