Idolo y piedra de los sacrificios
The goddess's face is represented in the form of two serpents facing one another, and her skirt is fashioned to appear as snakeskin, adorned with skulls. The stone, with pedestal, in front of the statue is believed to have been used in the highly ritualized human sacrifices encountered by the Spaniards upon their arrival at Tenochtitlan.
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