Moyotlan sculpture on display for the first time at the Templo Mayor museum / @alefrausto @cultura_mx >>>

#SecretaríaDeCultura.- As a Mexica Epiphany gift, from January 6 until April 2, 2023, the Museo del Templo Mayor (MTM) is exhibiting, for the first time, the sculpture of Moyotlan, an important pre-Hispanic work of art that was discovered last year, which probably represents a divinity of this civilization.

Organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the exhibition La escultura de la parcialidad de Moyotlan. The image in the Mexica art presents this anthropomorphic work of 69 centimeters high, 22.5 wide and 15.3 thick.

In the inauguration of the sample, in representation of the general director of the INAH, Diego Prieto Hernández, the technical secretary of the institution, José Luis Perea González, announced that, although the piece continues under study, a hypothesis is that it represents Xipe Tótec, ‘our lord the flayed one’.

«It was to the god Xipe to whom, at the beginning of March, the best corncobs and the best warriors captured in battle were offered. It was considered that he, in response, guaranteed the renewal of the crops and of life itself,» said the anthropologist.

During the presentation of the sculpture, the director of the Templo Mayor Museum, Patricia Ledesma Bouchan, emphasized: «We want to emphasize how powerful the sculptures were for the Mexica: the process followed in their elaboration and the sacredness they had, since they were not only figures but representations of the gods. Reasons enough for many indigenous people to risk their lives to save these pieces, which are now a source to learn about our past and admire the pre-Hispanic artistic talent».

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