Seated Male Carrying Maize: zu sehen — Cleveland Museum of Art

This figure probably represents an Aztec deity-either Macuilxochitl or Xochipilli-whose domain was beauty, the arts, and such pleasures as gameplaying, dancing, and sex. Both names include the Aztec word for "flower," and in one hand the figure holds a cone of flowers, perhaps the blossoming crown of a cactus. For the Aztecs, flowers signified beauty, refinement, and fertility in general and sexuality in particular. The burden of maize cobs on his back also may allude to his creative energies.

Seated Male Carrying Maize

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Über die Skulptur

Angaben

Im selben Saal · 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region, Cleveland Museum of Art

Im Katalog

Quellen

Front Face of a Stela (Free-standing Stone with Relief), 692

Ballgame Palma, c. 900–1100

"Horned" Male, 100 BCE–300 CE

Head Fragment, c. 900–300 BCE

Mural Fragment with Elite Male and Maguey Cactus Leaves, 500–550

Panel with Royal Woman, c. 795

Figural Pendant, 1–800 CE

Figure of a Warrior, after 1325 (thermoluminescence date of casting core, 1345–1575)