No other body part represents a person like the head. It is the center of vision, language and thought.
In multiple cultures, the display of human heads was a common practice.
In the Great Tenochtitlan, the Tzompantli was the altar where the severed heads of the captives were impaled, in order to honor the gods.
According to the archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma: “Templo Mayor was the great Mexica ceremonial center, and it was built on two axes: that of death, represented by Hutizilopochtli, and that of life, represented by the god Tlaloc… because the Mexica worshiped life through death”.
In Tenochtitlan there were seven of these constructions, associated with seven different gods; and they were built from a stone platform, on which a scaffold with thin wooden rods was raised, and it was used to pierce the human skulls through their temples.
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