Life and Death in the Templo Mayor

The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme.

“This book provides a fascinating, well-informed interpretation of data obtained during the excavation of this important site, and is a major contributor to an understanding of the complexities of Mexican beliefs and their concepts of the universe.”
—The British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America