Coyolxauhqui: The Dismembered Moon

In February 1978, electrical workers digging beneath downtown Mexico City struck a stone disk three meters across, carved with the dismembered body of a Mexica goddess. The stone had lain face-up under the colonial plaza for four and a half centuries. Her name was Coyolxauhqui, "e;Bells-Her-Cheeks."e; She was the daughter of the earth mother Coatlicue, the sister of the war god Huitzilopochtli, an...