5. Has all Tenochtitlan been uncovered?WHILE VIEWING A<br />“Coatlicue” was an Aztec goddess.Watch the video and pay attention to why “Coatlicue” is a fascinating piece of work.<br />WHILE VIEWING B ANSWER KEY <br />Watch the video and fill in the blanks with the words you hear in the description of “Coatlicue”.<br />MEXICO CITY MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY<br />Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology is considered one of the best of its kind in the world. It houses archeological treasures charting Mexican culture from pre-historical times right through to Modern indigenous life.<br />This is the most fascinating piece of work for me at the Museum. It’s called Coatlicue, which means “Skirt of Serpents” and it’s the “Goddess of Earth”, and actually what she has for a head, because here, right here in the skin of a serpent there is a square and a little circle inside, which is the Aztec symbol for blood. So, what she actually has as a head is two great spurts of blood that go all the way around, making two heads, two serpent heads. They come out of her neck.<br />That’s right. And they’re like kissing each other and you can see the teeth and the tongue that goes next to the mouth of the Goddess and on the breast she has a collar with hands and hearts and then, all the way around she has the serpent skirt. She’s pinned it on her back with another skull, and also her shoulders are serpent faces. And that center over there is actually the center of Tenochtitlan, which is the same as this one.<br />And is this what this Okolo is today?<br />It’s the same place. It’s just like…..they put the pyramids down and destroyed everything. <br />So the colonialists destroyed all these buildings.<br />And put the churches over them.<br />But what priests did in order to perform the human sacrifices is to ……well….kill the person and then they took the skin of the person out with her and everything and the priest put the skin over him and then he took the beating heart and … in one of these, the heart also beating……..<br />Like, in this?<br />In this rock.<br />This rock saw many beating hearts.<br />That’s right.<br />WHILE VIEWING C<br />Watch the video again and check your answers.<br />POST-VIEWING<br />Look at the sculpture of “Coatlicue” and use the vocabulary in the box to write a paragraph describing it.<br />snake teeth hands square human hearts woman tonguemouth blood feet circle skirt face goddess serpents clawsnecklacebreastsskulls shoulders “Coatlicue” is represented as a woman wearing………. <br />