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FIG. 6 (below right):
Old Fire God sculpture.
Teotihuacan, Anahuac,
Mexico. AD 500–600.
Andesite. W: 66 cm.
Zona de Monumentos Arqueológica
de Teotihuacán/INAH.
Photo: Jorge Pérez de Lara Elías,
© INAH.
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco.
FIG. 5 (below left):
Feathered Serpent head.
Teotihuacan, Anahuac,
Mexico. AD 200–250.
Stone, stucco, pigment. L: 200 cm.
Zona de Monumentos Arqueológica
de Teotihuacán/INAH Museo de la
Cultura Teotihuacana,
inv. 10-411074.
Photo: Jorge Pérez de Lara Elías,
© INAH.
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco.
FIG. 4 (above):
Mural fragment with
feathered feline.
Teotihuacan, Anahuac,
Mexico. AD 500–550.
Earthen aggregate, stucco, mineral
pigments. L: 102 cm.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,
bequest of Harald J. Wagner,
inv. 1985.104.5.
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco.
the city’s ceremonial core. The elaborate burials
inside the Moon Pyramid suggest foundational
narratives closely linked to cycles of time, as well
as attempts to control natural forces through the
inclusion of predators, including some buried
alive in wooden cages. Similarly, the east-west
tunnels associated with the Sun Pyramid (fi gs.
13–15) and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid (fi g.
3) suggest fundamental solar associations, connecting
these structures to the passage of celestial
bodies like the sun and moon through the daytime
and nighttime skies.
The exhibition will bring together objects
from different excavations of each of the three
pyramids. In addition to important murals in
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