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Our collection of Aztec items includes Aztec pottery, Aztec masks and ceremonial items that offer a glimpse of this ancient civilization for use as Mexican style decor. 

Aztec Pottery, Aztec Masks and Ancient Aztec Artwork

The creation of the pre Columbian world

The creation of the pre Columbian world is commonly depicted in Aztec pottery, Aztec masks and artwork.  It chronicles how gods have created the world five times.

In the beginning, from total void and darkness Ometecutli ("Lord of Duality") created himself. The Lord of Duality was a union of opposites: good and bad, chaos and order, male and female.  Being both male and female ("Lord and Lady of Duality"), Ometecutli was able to conceive children. The union of the Male and Female Lords of Duality produced four children; the war god Huizilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent, Tezcatlipoca, the god "Smoking Mirror" and Xipe Totec "Our Lord the Flayed One" a life-death-rebirth deity. 

Four ages, or "suns" of 2028 years ensued. Each of these "births of the world" was terminated with cataclysms due to the infighting among the gods as they competed for power. All humans in each of the previous four suns were destroyed or transformed.

In the darkness after the end of the fourth sun, Quetzalcoatl descended into the underworld to bring up the bones of the dead. They would be used to bring to life the people who lived in the "fifth sun".  In this fifth current sun Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, gods ancient and powerful together recreated heaven, earth, and the inhabitants.

Our collection of Aztec items includes Aztec pottery, Aztec masks and ceremonial items that offer a glimpse of this ancient civilization for use as Mexican style decor.

The pre Columbian Aztecs believed that the war god Huitzilopochtli himself intervened in their behalf, bestowing his blessings upon them and allowing them to conquer and rule.  Through his guidance the mighty Aztec empire grew.

But the world was a precarious and unstable place, the sun could not move on its own.  As a matter of fact, when it first came into the sky, it couldn't move at all. The gods themselves had to perform blood sacrifices to energize the sun and allow it to continue its daily journey.  And now, humans had to repay the debt, and keep the sun moving, with their own blood sacrifices. 

Thus the sun required both the blood of gods and humans to continue its journey and it was Huitzilopochtli, the great warrior god in particular who fought for the sun.  Warriors, gods and human alike, fought to provide sustenance to keep the sun moving.

These scenes are depicted in Aztec pottery and artwork such as the Aztec sun stone (more commonly known as the Aztec calendar) and inscribed in stone on temples.

Aztec Pottery and Aztec Masks used in Mexican style decor

Aztec artwork in use today as Mexican style decor includes ceremonial items used by Aztec shamans to call forth the gods.  Each ceremony began with the burning of the sacred copal, in ceramics that had been purified.

Our collection of Aztec pottery, Aztec masks and Aztec ceremonial items offers a glimpse of this ancient world.  All items originate from Mexico and are hand crafted by descendants of the mighty Aztec empire.  Each piece is unique because it is hand crafted and ideally suited for display at an office setting or home adding a touch of the Pre Columbian world to any location.

Add an accent of the Pre Columbian world to your home or office.

Our collection of Aztec items includes Aztec pottery, Aztec masks and ceremonial items that offer a glimpse of this ancient civilization for use as Mexican style decor.