Aztec Sun Stone or Calendar Stone
The Aztec believed that the world is successively created and destroyed, and that the present world is the fifth creation, or fifth “sun.” These five ages are depicted in the Sun Stone. At the center is a deity; some scholars believe it is the Sun God, Tonitiuh, while others believe it to be an earth monster.
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Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras: Que con ocasión del nuevo empedrado que se está formando en la plaza principal de México . . .
Aztec Sun Stone or Calendar Stone