Solicitud de favores...y dones para los dioses

Muchos pueblos mesoamericanos acostumbraban colocar ofrendas tanto para clausurar un edificio, como para construirlo; y este es el caso de una ofrenda encontrada aquí para consagra una nueva edificación.Los arqueólogos encontraron en 1998 una gran cista o caja de piedra (hecha de sillares de cantera rosa) con diversos objetos en su interior: un carapacho de tortuga utilizado como teponaxtle (tambor), objetos de madera a manera de cetros con forma de serpiente y una "mariposa" articulada que se asocian con el culto a Tláloc. También se encontraron numerosos cuchillos de obsidiana y pedernal, espinas de maguey para auto sacrificios, trozos de copal (resina aromática) y una cuenta de piedra verde al centro de la caja. Para fortalecer la nueva construcción del Templo Mayor también se colocaron dos cráneos humanos con sus vertebras cervicales. Pie de dibujo:Objetos encontrados durante las excavaciones arqueológicasDibjuo: Salvador Guilliem Arroyo y Saturnino Valledo English:Many Mesoamerican town have the custom to put offerings when closing down a building structure as well as when building one, that is the case here of an offering found here in order to consecrate a new building. In 1998, archaeologists found a Cista or box full of rocks (made of blocks of stone of pink quarry) with many different objects on the inside: a turtle shell used as a "teponaxtle" (drum), wooden objects like scepters in the shape of a snake and an assembled butterfly that is associated with the cult to Tláloc. Many knives made of obsidian and flint were also found as well as maguey plant thorns for self-sacrifice, bits of "copal" (aromatic tree resin) and a green stone bead at center part of the box.To fortify the new construction of the Templo Mayor, two human skulls along with the vertebra were put in.English translation of the caption:Objects found during the archeological excavations.Drawing: Salvador Guilliem Arroyo and Saturnino Vallejo

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