We just learned about the La Mojarra Stela 1.
Another famous Mesoamerican sculpture is the Aztec Sun Stone, made some time around 1500 AD in Mexico.
This stone is about over 11 feet wide, and over 3 feet thick.
The design of the stone is split up into a few different parts.
The very middle is a sculpture of a face that people think was the sun god that the people believed in.
Around the face are four squares representing symbols for past times. The jaguar, wind, rain and water.
The first circle around that is a type of calendar, with different parts of the year shown as symbols like crocodiles, monkeys or dogs.
The second circle has sculptures of arches, feathers, and different lines that people think are for the suns rays.
The last circle on the outside has two big serpents meeting face to face, that have flame carvings all over their bodies.
(from: wikipedia - aztec sun stone)
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