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Tetitla Mural Fragment

A Ramble Around Teotihuacan with Dick Diehl

Tetitla Mural Replica

Tetitla Mural Replica

Photograph by Richard A. Diehl, November 2008

Mural Fragment

This is a small piece of a much larger mural that was looted from a building near the Moon Pyramid. Know by some as the "Chicken Warrior", it shows a raptorial bird (perhaps a hawk but NOT a chicken, which was unknown in ancient Mexico) armed with a shield and a fletched dart or spear. What can the flower in its beak mean? Surely not the Flower Power of the 1960s.

Written by Richard A. Diehl

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