Templo Mayor

In Mexico City, Blayne and I wandered around Templo Mayor which was one of the main Aztec temple sites (near
the Zocalo) when Mexico City was Tenochtitlan. The temples were destroyed when the Spanish conquerors took over the city. In 1978, city workers discovered parts of the ruin and eventually the excavation site widened to uncover the ruins of the temples.

Given that this was a series of Aztec temples, blood was a reoccurring theme. My favourite part is the large collection of obsidian knives that people used for 'auto-sacrifice' or as the museum explained 'devotees cut into themselves or cut fleshy bits off themselves to fill an offering bowl or soak fabric to offer to the gods.' I also liked this bat-faced god.