Coyolxauhqui
This is a painting of Coyolxauhqui, Bells Ringing on her Cheeks, who is Our Lady the Moon, the Aztec Teotl of that heavenly body. She appears enthroned on the moon, which is a bone vessel filled with water, within which is a flint-stone blade. The water is life and the knife, death, for the moon is born anew and dies every month, and symbolizes death and rebirth. Her body is painted yellow, the color of women, and her arms, legs, and waist are encircled with coral snakes...
