Cuauhxicalli - Sacred Vessel of Hearts

La Piedra Del Sol (The Sun Stone) in Nahuatl known as Cuauhxicalli - El Vaso de Corazones (Vessel of Hearts), otherwise referred to as El Calendario Del Azteca (The Azteca Calendar). The work is carved out of olivine basalt, a volcanic hardened rock weighing 25 tons and measuring 3.60 meters in diameter, or approximately 12 feet high. It was made in the 15th Century, during the 6th Tenochca lord, Axayacatl. It was buried, away from Spanish destruction and works of arts and language. Away from the devastation that fell Tenochtitlan from European invaders who landed on the continent of Aztlan, our Quinto Sol, as the name given it by the Aztecs. It was held in El Templo del Sol (Temple of the Sun), in the ceremonial precinct of the Aztec capital. It laid buried for 300 years, when it was recovered again, in the Southwest corner of the Plaza Mayor, now called Plaza de la Constitucion, in 1790. Today its sits in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexicao City, in the Mexica Room.