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So here I am in Mexico City. Amazing even awesome place with all that history with names very difficult to pronounce and remember. And fascinating as well. Of course I've gone already to the Enormous Templo Major next to the Cathedral. It was once utterly destroyed by the Spanish in the first half of the sixteenth century; but the last half century or so has seen it progressively excavated (the on-site museum is wonderful!).
Anyway, just imagine how things can horrify: in the low-right inset is a relatively small black stone of volcanic lava. It was once the 'chopping block'. Here human sacrifices were made and the sacrificial blood straight from the torn-out heart was presented to the Sun. Huitzilopochtli, the God of War, the Sun, and Human Sacrifice was thought to hold court in this high temple. The Aztec pantheon is very complicated for me reared rather on Classical Antiquity. So I've not quite understood whether the main photo is for Xiutecuhtli or not... he apparently lived in an aquatic abode of turquoise stones, and was also a God of the Sun.
There is little that grows in these ruins, but I did see Chilean Cudweed, Pseudognaphalim stramineum (if I'm not mistaken: first I thought it was Helichrysum pendulum...).