Seated Deity

1350–1519 Overall: 37.5 x 20.3 x 24.8 cm (14 3/4 x 8 x 9 3/4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.136

The crested headdress with tassels suggests that this youthful, seated male is Macuilxochitl (Five Flower), an Aztec supernatural patron of many forms of pleasure, among them music, dance, feasting, games, and sex. His cult was popular among common people, and this effigy prob...

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