Source: WTL© digital photograph (2009) taken in the Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City.
Comments: This is a statue representing the Aztec god of death, Mictlantecuhtli (Lord of Mictlan). He was considered the king of the lowest area of the underworld. At the Great Temple of Tenochtitlán the ceremony honoring and pacifying Mictlantecuhtli involved cannibalism. Other representations of this god were made with a blood soaked skull and skeleton, eyes sockets a necklas of human eyeballs, and ear insertions of human bones.
Humanities Question: Does this statue communicate your idea of death? What idea of death did this statue communicate/represent for the Aztecs?