Coatepec or Serpent Mountain, is the name of a city in Veracruz state in Mexico: it is also the name of a sacred, mythological place, a mountain in fact, where the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli was born, and, with the help of his 400 brothers, killed his sister to stop her from killing their mother. Those crazy Aztecs!
Coatepec symbool at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, photo by kudumomo
As contributing writer Nicoletta Maestri tells us in her new article on Coatepec, a snake motif referring to this mythical mountain is frequently found on many Aztec temples and pyramids: but it resonates from a much older tradition in Latin America.
- Coatepec: Sacred Serpent Mountain of the Aztecs
- The story of Huitzilopochtli
- Aztec Origins and Tenochtitlan
- Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan
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