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• 1.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（11）
• This programme has turned out to be more about what we don't know than what we do. Our statue's commanding physical presence speaks to us with perempt...
• 2.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（10）
• Kim Richter may of course be right, and these statues may simply be representations of the local elite, but I find it hard to believe that these geome...
• 3.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（9）
• The Aztec expert Kim Richter gives us her more secular understanding of the statue: I've argued that the sculptures represent the Huastec elite, who d...
• 4.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（8）
• So it's pretty hard to come to any firm view about our statue's meaning, and now some scholars are even questioning whether she's a goddess at all. Ba...
• 5.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（7）
• Just as Tlazolteotl was held to consume actual filth, and thus restore life and goodness, she did the same in moral terms. She was, the Aztecs told th...
• 6.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（6）
• The simple fact is that childbirth and infancy are always very messy affairs. To achieve even a minimum level of hygiene means devising systems for co...
• 7.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（5）
• It's important not to say that all mother goddesses are the same. A lot of times the mother goddesses are related to the spring, to vegetation, to tha...
• 8.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（4）
• But she does have two humanising aspects. Her small head is unexpectedly animated, she appears to be looking up and to the side towards something, and...
• 9.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（3）
• Here in the Mexico Gallery at the British Museum, I am looking at a statue of a woman. Not just one woman, in fact, because although she is in prime p...
• 10.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（2）
• Everybody knows about the Aztecs, and how the great Aztec Empire was conquered by the Spaniards in the 1520s. We hear much less about the people that ...