Coyolxauhqui found: the Templo Mayor returns

On 21 February 1978 electrical workers in central Mexico City struck a huge carved disc of the moon goddess Coyolxauhqui, leading to the excavation of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan.

1978 CE · 19.43, -99.13 · status: official

The account

The temple's layers and offerings confirmed the myth of Huitzilopochtli's birth on Coatepec, the Serpent Hill, recorded in the Florentine Codex.

Connections in the atlas

• The Coatlicue statue is unearthed and reburied
• Second omen: Huitzilopochtli's temple burns

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Templo Mayor
2. Wikipedia: Coyolxauhqui Stone