A Wikipedia article on Coatlicue, the Aztec mother goddess. The article infobox illustrates her with the colossal stone statue found in 1790 during street paving in Mexico City's main plaza and now on permanent display in the National Museum of Anthropology, showing her skirt of writhing snakes and necklace of human hearts, hands and skulls.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here only for the statue's subject and museum attribution, corroborated independently by the Wikimedia Commons photographer record for the same photograph. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatlicue
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Coatlicue directly: "A Wikipedia article on Coatlicue, the Aztec mother goddess."
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This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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