The sun god at the stone's center, who required daily human sacrifice to continue his journey across the sky, representing life's costly renewal.

The sun god who traveled through the underworld each night, battling chaos to rise again at dawn, mirroring the stone's cyclical struggle.

The great cosmic diagram that manifests in time and space the eternal, balanced principles established by the primordial duality.

The physical, monumental embodiment of the entire myth, a stone calendar and cosmic map detailing the five suns and their destinies.

Though a later artifact, it embodies the cosmological order the Aztecs imposed from their founding myth, a stone mandala reflecting a universe centered on their divinely-won place.

The ultimate symbol of the myth, a stone cosmos diagram that maps the divine struggle and the precarious balance of the current age.