Today I visited the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico! I was able to see the Aztec Sun Stone and the statue of the Goddess Coatlicue.
The Aztec Calendar Stone, better known in the archaeological literature as the Aztec Sun Stone (Piedra del Sol in Spanish), is an enormous basalt disk covered with hieroglyphic carvings of calendar signs and other images referring to the Aztec creation myth. The so-called Aztec Calendar Stone was not a calendar, but most likely a ceremonial container or altar linked to the Aztec sun god, Tonatiuh, and festivities dedicated to him.
Coatlicue is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the hummingbird god of the sun and war. Her name means “skirt of snakes”. She is the mother of the gods, the patron of women who die in childbirth, goddess of death, life, and rebirth, and is known as a primordial earth mother. She is very similar to the Hindu goddess Kali. She brings great transformation to those that call upon her.
She shares a similar story to the Blessed Mother Mary. Coatlicue was supernaturally impregnated and gave birth to a savior sun god, just as Mary was, they are sisters. Coatlicue represents our ancestral power and past, while Our Lady represents our present and future. When they work together, great transformation will occur.
“Goddess Coatlicue and Our Lady of Guadalupe, spirits of Mother Earth. Connect me to my ancestral power and past, to heal my present, and propel me into the future with a force of a thousand suns. Thank you!”