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Great Snakes...

Aztec foundations - as solid as stone serpents! Just a few blocks from Mexico City’s main square you come face to face with the head of a massive Aztec snake sculpture: and you begin imagining...

One such gigantic serpent’s head, nearly a metre high and 1.5 metres long, recently made a visit to London from its home in Mexico City’s biggest museum. Identified as the head of a rattlesnake, it has scales and four sharp teeth at the front and a pair of fangs at either side.

Sculptures like this graced the stairs of the pyramids at Tenochtitlan, guarding the temples of the greatest Aztec gods.

As one Mexican writer says about the Aztecs: ‘...their hearts still beat underground. In Mexico City, there is a god under every stone, and when the stones speak, they are the memory of our people...’