Maya & Aztecs Quiz

El Mirador, Guatemala

c. 100 BCE

• reconstruction

• preserved under layers the Maya built on top

El Tigre Temple Complex

El Mirador

c. 300-100 BCE

• huge scale

• preserved under layers the Maya built on top

Las Pinturas Temple

Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala

Pre-classic Maya

c. 300-100 BCE

• organic paintings found on the walls

• Religious, mythological scenes

• Animate maize, death and rebirth, the seasons

Tikal

Guatemala

c. 800 CE

• suddenly abandoned

Siyaj Chank’awil

Tikal, Stela 31

c. 435 CE

• important king

• Very elaborate

Yaxnunayin

Tikal Ruler (in 379 CE)

Son of Teotihuacan ruler

• shows long distance connectedness of Mayans (teotihuacan ruling family extended to Tikal)

• Father of Siyaj Chank’awil

Classic Maya Vase Painting

600-800 CE

Mythical and historical scenes

Chocolate drink (kakaw)

Cacao vase

Northern Guatemala

ca. 400 CE

Mythology of the Maize God

c. 750 CE

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• plate in “codex style”

• Animate maize god

Jaina Figurines

Late Classic Maya

c. 700 CE

Campeche region, Mexico

Ceramic figurine Jaina style

Opening page of the Mendoza Codex

Aztec

c. 1560 CE

• Founding myth of Tenochtitlan (eagle on prickly pear cactus)

• Map of city

Coyolxauhqui Stone

Templo Mayor

c. 1500

• dismembered moon goddess defeated by the sun god (Huitzilopochtli) at Snake Mountain

Tlaltecutli Stone

Templo Mayor

Earth Goddess

c. 1500 CE

• embedded in the Earth bc Earth goddess

The “Calendar Stone”

Tenochtitlan

c. 1503 CE

• center is Moteuczoma II as Huitzilopochtli (sun god)

• Identified by hieroglyphs by the face

• The king is the cosmos, he is time (importance)