English: This is a photograph of the Aztec Stone of the Sun displayed in the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City in Mexico. The information below was displayed near this stone display in the museum and is verbatim.

"The one sculpture which identifies the Mexicas above all others is the Stone of the sun, discovered in dec 1790, in the Plaza Mayor of the capital of New spain.Because of its symbolic content, with the names of the days and the cosmogonic suns,it was incorrectly identified as the Aztec Calendar.This is a large gladiatorial sacrificial altar known as a temalacatl, which was not finished because of a deep crack that runs from one side to the center of the piece at the rear.Despite the fracture, it must have been used to stage the fights between the warriors in the tlacaxipehualiztli ceremony. In the design of the disk, the face of Xiuhtecuhtli- emerging from the earth hole, holding a pair of humanhearts and showing his tongue transformed into a sacrificial knife- can be recognized; he is surrounded by the four suns that preceded the Fifth Sun, in turn

inscribed in the figure of the sun with its four beamssymmetrically acompanied by sacrificial sharp points.The star is surrounded by two xiuhcoatl or "Fire serpents",which carry it across the heavens."