Aztec Sun/Calendar Stone
- Also known as the temple of the sacred war
- Discovered under Mexico’s city’s National Palace in 1831
- The throne is really symbolic
- It is believed that the one who sat on the throne believed that the gods made him the ruler of central Mexico
- The monument represents a temple
- On the back of the throne, is a nature scene with a eagle on a cactus (representing the founding of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)
- Sitting on the throne meant being seated over the Earth and the underworld, with the past behind you
- The throne represented the connection to the cult of the sun and blood sacrifice
- The stone shows Moctezuma himself and a priest to the god Huitzilopchtil (or perhaps the god himself)
- Aztecs used this as their calendar, helps them keep track of time, alters their beliefs (ie. certain days are lucky while others are unlucky)
- The worldview of that some days are lucky while others are not - affect what they do each day
- Spanish does not care about if the day is lucky/unlucky
- People use calendars, artifact is being preserved