In spite of the cruelty of its human sacrifices, the Aztec faith appears to have been based on a way of thinking which was rooted in nature.
The goddess Tlazolteotl is portrayed as the life-giving earth mother and goddess of fertility, but at the same time as the cruel, disease-bringing goddess of insanity.
She takes possession of a person, penetrates him and causes him to fall in convulsions.
www.epilepsiemuseum.deDer aztekische Glaube scheint bei all seiner Grausamkeit der Menschenopferungen von einem tiefen naturhaften Denken geprägt zu sein.
So ist die dargestellte Göttin Tlazolteotl die lebensspendende Erdmutter und Göttin der Fruchtbarkeit, gleichzeitig aber auch die grausame, krankheitsbringende Wahnsinnsgöttin.
Sie bemächtigt sich des Menschen, dringt in ihn ein und lässt ihn in Krämpfe fallen.
www.epilepsiemuseum.deInSplitting the Other ( 2007 ) she has found an image for this :
the figure of a woman, the earth mother with an umbilical cord, at whose ends innocent newborns hang alongside monsters.
It is not, however, the either/or, but the both/and.
www.hatjecantz.deIn Splitting the Other ( 2007 ) hat sie hierfür ein Bild geschaffen :
Die Figur der Frau, der Erdmutter mit der Nabelschnur, an deren Enden unschuldige Neugeborene genauso hängen wie Monster.
Es ist aber nicht das Entweder-Oder sondern das Sowohl-Als-Auch.
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