Moctezuma's Throne
- Also known as the temple of the sacred war
- Discovered under Mexico’s city’s National Palace in 1831
- The throne is really symbolic
- 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 throne shows the material that they use and the way they built architecture
- From the throne, Moctezuma only sees what he can see (a volcano, his city, etc.) - makes him believe that his people are at the center of the universe, while the Spanish knew that the world was much bigger
- People use chairs, the artifact has been found and is being preserved