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Sculpture «mask ornament» Maize Deity (Chicomecoatl)

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Background of the sculpture:

Among the many female deities worshiped by the Aztecs, those responsible for agricultural fertility occupied a special place. This sculpture depicts Chicomecoatl (seven snakes), the goddess of sustenance, especially edible plants and corn. She is depicted standing barefoot, wearing a long skirt held in place by a belt, and holding two ears of corn in her right hand. Her head and most of her body are covered by a raised square headdress, decorated with twisted elements at the front and rosettes at the corners. This headdress is taller than the figure itself and is called amacalli (paper house); it is the most typical attribute of the corn goddess. During Aztec religious rituals, real paper house headdresses were complex constructions of brightly colored stiff bark paper. They were worn by imitators of the corn goddess.

The sculpture is carved from a narrow stone slab in a flat, angular style. The only noticeable rounded shapes are the ears of corn and the figure's face, which peers out from a hole in the headdress, as if looking through an open door on the front of a house.

Small fertility figures, often artistically unremarkable, were mass-produced during Aztec times and probably served as household idols.