Imágenes sagradas

"The old residents of the valley of Mexico created a vehement interaction with its images of stone, few years before the conquest. The sculptors channeled their creativity to capture human figures that were representations of deities, rulers, priests and sacrificial victims. Also sculpted animals natural or fantastic, as well as instruments used in the ceremonies. This book proposes a method for the identification and interpretation of 152 sculptures of Aztec style, many of them fragmented and out of context, that stand out for their aesthetic quality, diversity and iconographic complexity; others however were dug up from the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan, mainly of the Templo Mayor. The author explores the existence of order principles that indicate the use of these figures in religious, political and historical contexts, based in the systematic study of their characteristics, the use of the abundant material comparative and them sources documentary available until the time. Ángel González López is an archaeologist graduate of the ENAH, currently a doctoral student in anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Since 2004 he is a member of the project Templo Mayor." (Our translation)-Verso Cover.