Coatlicue

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Statue of Coatlicue in the National Museum of Anthropology ( Mexico City )

Coatlicue ( Nahuatl in German: "The one with the snake skirt") is an Aztec statue of gods made of black basalt, which is in the National Museum of Anthropology in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City and symbolizes the ambivalence of the primary bond (in childhood) between intimacy and autonomy embodied. (The statue wears a skirt made of snake bodies, hence the name is derived.)

The ambivalence between intimacy and autonomy is particularly symbolized by the chain that the goddess wears. This consists of giving hands and torn hearts (tearing out the hearts of human sacrifices and stretching the hearts towards the sun as the giver of all life was a custom of the Aztecs) and is understood as the ambivalence of giving motherly love on the one hand and the devastating destruction of this on the other.

The ambivalence of give and take, creation and destruction, etc. is consistently expressed through the symbolization of the statue. B. a severed head, which symbolizes her death, and at the same time two snakes emerge from the two lateral arteries, which are understood as a never-ending stream of blood and in their own way regenerate the lost head.

At the same time, with the embodied goddess, the positive and negative aspects of motherhood are not only canceled out as a third, in that these are represented in a numinous divine form. Rather, the snake heads are turned towards each other in such a way that there is no room for a third between them and yet there is a frontal fixation that appeals to a third - the viewer. The goddess also mythologically represents a triadic union: She is seen as mother, sister and consort of the sun god.

In astronomy, it was proposed to name an assumed particular massive star that was formed with the sun in an open star cluster and whose material, ejected from its imminent supernova, additionally enriched the emerging solar system with heavier chemical elements , to name Coatlicue.

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  1. ↑ Bischof, Norbert (1985): The Riddle Oedipus. Munich: Piper, p. 480
  2. ↑ Hager, Andrea (1992): In: Perner, Rotraud A. (Ed.): Menschenjagd. The right to prosecute. Vienna: Donau Verlag, pp. 39–84, here: p. 77
  3. ↑ Bischof, Norbert (1985): The Riddle Oedipus. Munich: Piper, p. 480
  4. ↑ Bischof, Norbert (1985): The Riddle Oedipus. Munich: Piper, p. 480
  5. ↑ Bischof, Norbert (2004): The force field of myths. Munich: Piper, p. 207
  6. ^ Matthieu Gounelle & Georges Meynet. The Solar System Genealogy revealed by Meteorites. doi : 10.1051 / 0004-6361 / 201219031