WRITTEN IN FRENCH
In the heart of Mexico City (Tenochtitlan) sat a 7-step temple where priests and dignitaries of the Mexica civilization - long wrongly called Aztec - officiated at its summit. This temple was completely destroyed by Cortes and his friends. Today the foundations of the Templo Mayor have been found. Research into the discovery of multiple objects made it possible to better understand the functioning of the temple, to better understand the religion of the Mexica people, its host of gods to whom numerous gifts were offered to obtain their favors and their beneficial intervention. The best known, Quetzalcoatl - god of civilization - dominated this valhalla of the Mexican Empire, as Huitzilopochtli was the god of war and the sun. The fascinating exhibition traces the outline of a civilization which did not hesitate to sacrifice children to please gods who were supposed to dispose of the destiny of the little men struggling on this earth as they pleased.
Beaux Arts Éditions lifts the veil on a dynamic and predatory society, but also on artistic excellence and complex symbolic and religious thought.
Exhibition at the musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, from April 3 to September 8, 2024
French
68 pages - April 2024
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