Toltec

The Atlantes – columns in the form of Toltec warriors in Tula.

A rather expressive orange-ware clay vessel in the Toltec style.^[1]

Toltec is used by historians in different ways. It is either used to refer to certain people that lived in what is Mexico today, before Christopher Columbus came there. Some scholars also use the word to refer to the people that later developed into the Aztec civilisation. These people are only known from Aztec stories. It is not known if they actually formed one people or not.

Toltec Media

Pyramid C at Tula, Hidalgo
Tempo Tlahuizcalpantecuhtl (Pyramid B), the largest structure at the Tula archaeological site. Atlantean figures are on its apex.
Stucco relief at Tula: coyotes, jaguars and eagles feast on human hearts.
Carved relief of a jaguar at Tula
Depiction of an anthropomorphic bird-snake deity, probably Quetzalcoatl at the Temple of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli at Tula, Hidalgo
View of the columns of the burned palace at Tula Hidalgo. The second ballcourt is in the background.

References

↑ For other Toltec artifacts from the American Museum of Natural History collection, click here^{[dead link]}.

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[1] For other Toltec artifacts from the American Museum of Natural History collection, click here^{[dead link]}.

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