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Templo Mayor

Templo Mayor. By: Kelcie Thomas & Brad Smith. The Templo Mayor.

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Templo Mayor

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  1. Templo Mayor By: Kelcie Thomas & Brad Smith

  2. The Templo Mayor • The Templo Mayor was located in the centeral district of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztecs and present day Mexico. Construction of the first temple began in 1390, and it was rebuilt six times after that. It was finished in 1487 and was destroyed by the spainards after the fall of the Aztecs in 1521. Ruins of the Templo Mayor

  3. The Templo Mayor • The temple hosted shrines at the top of the structure to worship two seperate gods: Huitzilopochtli, god of war and Tlaloc, god of rain and agriculture. Tlaloc Huitzliopochtli

  4. The Templo Mayor • At it’s base the Templo Mayor measured approximately 330 ft. by 260 ft. It acended close to 197 ft. And the twin temples at the top were an aproximate 98 ft. The Templo Mayor (digital reconstruction)

  5. The Templo Mayor • The Templo Mayor was used for a another kind of worship. In order to secure good rain and harvest as well as success in war, the aztecs would sacrifice humans, usually prisoners of war, by tearing out the heart of the victim and offering the still beating heart to the sun (no images for obvious reasons)

  6. Templo Mayor • Sacrifices- Those who werwe sacrificed were from war captives and slaves. • Victims would climb the steps and lay on the stone slap thet would get held down by four priests and the fifth would cut the abdomen down and across with a knife and, take out the beating heart. • They would then take the still beating heart and put it in a bowl and point it up to the sky for the Gods and Godesses.

  7. Templo Mayor • Sacrifices- People believed if Gods didnt perform the sacrifices the world would come to an end because the Gods would not survive with out human fresh blood. • Cannibalism of the victim was said to be a nessasary part of the Aztec diet.

  8. The Templo Mayor • Sacrifice by the number- - 80,400 prisoners • 4 days • Average of 14 sacrifices per MINUTE • Compare this to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, that executed 19,200 prisoners a day at its peak.

  9. The Templo Mayor Huitzilopochtli- • His mother was Coatlicue and his father was a ball of feathers. His sister Coyoxauhqui tried to kill his mother because she got pregnant with Huitzilopochtil before Coyoxauhqui killed his mother he sprang from her body fully armed and grown and killed his sister. Huitzilopochtil cut off his sisters head and tossed his sisters head in the sky who became the moon. He then killed the rest of his 500 brothers and sisters and sent them to be the stars of the sky so his mother could still see them. The “H” Dude.

  10. The Templo Mayor Tlaloc- • Tlaloc ruled the forth layer of the Upperworld or heavens.Tlalocan was the destionation named after him where people who died of a violent death associated with water, lightning, or water borne diseases. Tlaloc

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