where can i find an image of the iconic indio in a big feather head dress holding the woman who is either dead or passed out in his arms? i see it all
over the borderline on blankets and rugs.
a google search doesn't return the image.
Image
bajaguy - 1-1-2014 at 03:37 PM
How about a velvet painting???bajadogs - 1-1-2014 at 03:49 PM
Throw this into google image search -
la leyenda de los volcanesacadist - 1-1-2014 at 04:54 PM
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How about a velvet painting???
I just Googled Aztec warrior holding dead princess
durrelllrobert - 1-1-2014 at 05:05 PM
What the story about the aztec warrior holding the princess?
im sure at one time or another you've seen the aztec wariorr holding a a dead princess picture/painting/image. (some times there on top of a moutian)
is there a story behing this pretty much famous pic? im thinking its proably interesting..
This one?
or this one?
BajaBlanca - 1-1-2014 at 05:20 PM
the original painting hangs at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Pilsen.
She's the Aztec princess Iztaccihuatl.
He's the warrior Popocteptl.
Here is a summary based on one version as recounted at a September 2006 "Myth, Mortals and Immortality: Works from the Museo Soumaya de México"
exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution:
Before leaving for war, Popocatépetl asked Iztaccíhuatl's father for permission to marry her. Shortly after, a rival of Popocatépetl falsely told
Iztaccíhuatl that her love been killed in battle. The princess died of grief from this news. Popocatépetl returned victorious but was shocked by the
princess's death. To honor her, he ordered a tomb to be built close to the sun. Ten hills were united to create a mountain. Popocatépetl laid the
princess's body at the mountaintop, and the whole mountain took on the form of a sleeping woman. As the warrior kneeled before his lost love, snow
covered them, and they both transformed into volcanoeswoody with a view - 1-1-2014 at 05:25 PM
i LOVE history!!!! Thanks Blanca!woody with a view - 1-1-2014 at 05:27 PM
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Throw this into google image search -
