Coatlicue (1)

Courtesy of the Werner-Forman Archive

Coatlicue, mother of 'The Lord of the Universe', goddess of the earth, and of life and death. (Also identified as the death
goddess, Mictlancihuatl, consort to the Lord of the Dead). The figure wears a skirt of serpents. Stone, shell, turquoise. National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.