That piece is Huehueteotl, a clay statue of an Aztec god by Santa Fe artist Hernan Gomez Chavez, who created it during a residency in Puebla, Mexico, over the summer. Gomez Chavez is also the ...

For the Aztec community in the Basin of ... obsidian blades and stone sculptures. The sculptures imitated the face of Tlaloc, the Mexica god of rain, archaeologists said. Now, analysis of the ...

as well as the ancient statue of Xochipilli, the Aztec god of art, games, beauty, dance and maize (among others). The museum offers a look at how tradition, culture and life were formed in all ...