Snake Script: Aztec Inspiration

the Aztecs, one of the most powerful and mysterious cultures.

 Snakes can be found throughout significant buildings in aztec architecture.  The ” wall of serpents” was used to identify and close off sacred spaces.

 

 

the Great Temple in the Aztec capital, which was the ritual focus for the entire city, is surrounded by embedded snake elements. The habit of snakes to shed their skin each year  conveyed ideas concerning renewal and transformation.

 

 Geographically, western cultures responded to the dangerous venomous snakes around them by appropriating their image onto negative figures, and over vilanizing this creature. Instead, the Aztecs saw the great ability a snake had, and the power they held over a humans well-being.