Tonatiuh relief

Courtesy of the Werner-Forman Archive

Relief with Tonatiuh, the Sun god, shown as a diving eagle surrounded by skulls. Notice that he has a sacrificial knife blade ('tecpatl') as a tongue. Stone. Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Some believe this is not Tonatiuh but the Lord of the Earth, Tlaltecuhtli; this mirrors disagreements surrounding the god in the centre of the Aztec Sunstone...