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    A tzompantli (Nahuatl pronunciation: [t͡somˈpant͡ɬi]) or skull rack was a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations...
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    in a plaza, with a cross altar decorated with skulls, or mesoamerican tzompantli. At the north side of the plaza is another structure. This cross altar...
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    [citation needed] The Kichwa-Lamista people in Peru used to be headhunters. A tzompantli is a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican...
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    As of 2020, archaeologists have found 603 human skulls at the Hueyi Tzompantli in the archeological zone of the Templo Mayor. A wide variety of interpretations...
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    Tzompantli, or Skull Platform (Plataforma de los Cráneos), shows the clear cultural influence of the central Mexican Plateau. Unlike the tzompantli of...
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    Several Mesoamerican cultures used a skull-rack (known by its Nahuatl term, tzompantli), on which skulls were impaled in rows or columns of wooden stakes. Even...
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    in the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleon than to the Mexica tzompantli. The recent trans-Atlantic connection can also be observed in the pervasive...
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    Aircraft boneyard Charnel house Columbarium Crypt Mausoleum Sarcophagus Tzompantli Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ossuaries. "What is an ossuary...
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    the space that connects with the north causeway towards Tepeyac. Altar Tzompantli (Temple). It is characterized by a glyph at the top of the southern alfarda...
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    Art with ideological and political meaning: depiction of an Aztec tzompantli (skull-rack) from the Ramirez Codex...
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    the Florentine Codex shows the heads of captured Spanish soldiers and their horses displayed on a tzompantli in front of the Temple of Huitzilopochtli...
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    Tlaloc; the temple of Quetzalcoatl; the tlachtli (ball game court) with the tzompantli or rack of skulls; the Sun Temple, which was dedicated to Tonatiuh; the...
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    Immacolata a via Veneto (Rome). Skull Chapel in Czermna Sedlec Ossuary Tzompantli Capela dos Ossos Cele kula "Chiesa di Santa Maria della Concezione", Turismo...
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    the Aztec Sacred Precinct (called the Teocalli) and contained the main tzompantli, or rack for the skulls of sacrifice victims. The first church was erected...
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    The "life masks" will be arranged around the plinth in the form of a tzompantli, a skull rack from Mesoamerican civilisations. 2026 Tschabalala Self Lady...
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    An excavated tzompantli from the Templo Mayor in modern-day Mexico City...
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  • used in rural Mexico, from "picietl", literally "tobacco") Popote (straw) Tenamaste Tepetate Tianguis = open air market Tiza Tzompantli (skull banner)...
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    some sacrificed victims to remove the flesh and place the skull in the tzompantli. Archaeologists concluded that the skull was boiled and that it cracked...
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    Petrified skull from Aztec tzompantli ruins added by the Spaniards...
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    deities, the ballcourt, the calmecac (a school for nobles), a skull rack tzompantli, displaying the skulls of sacrificial victims, houses of the warrior orders...
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    The Ambassadors (Holbein) Totenkopf, the German word for death's head Tzompantli, a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican...
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    Private Collection List of paintings by Paul Cézanne Skull Tower The Huey Tzompantli was a structure of several racks of skulls in Tenochtitlan. Adriani, Götz...
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    colonial period. For Day of the Dead 2011, the museum held an event called Tzompantli Gráfico where twenty artists including Fupete from Italy and Lucas Varela...
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    ritualistic practices that rose into prevalence were skull racks, or tzompantli. The skulls placed here were typically from sacrificial rituals and victims...
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  • Flores, Edgar Nito and Gigi Saul Guerrero - were relative newcomers. Tzompantli by Laurette Flores - Story about the rituals of drug dealers that mirrors...
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    and remove his heart. He was beheaded and his skull was placed on the tzompantli (skull rack), his body was flayed and his flesh was distributed among...
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  • platform, these were often accented by carved figures, altars and perhaps tzompantli, a stake used to display the heads to the victims or defeated Mesoamerican...
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    teotlachtli, clay and stone seals, a coiled serpent and other snakes, a tzompantli and a calendar that was hollowed out to make it into a baptismal font...
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  • stores Pipe rack, to support pipes, cables, cable trays, etc Skull rack or Tzompantli, a display of human skulls in Mesoamerican cultures Standard rack systems...
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    of defeated warriors on a shrine called a tzompantli. The municipality uses the Aztec glyph for a tzompantli for its seal. The area has small settlements...
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