Chacmools in a sentence

Costa Rican chacmools gripped sculpted bowls; these chacmools also served ceremonial purposes although the bowl was used to grind foodstuffs.

López Austin and López Luján 2001, p. 60. The chacmools of Chichen Itza and Tula depict young men with warrior attributes, while the chacmools of Michoacán depict elderly men with wrinkled faces and erect penises.

Such rituals may also have been executed upon chacmools, and the presence of small nose jewels sculpted onto various chacmools at Chichen Itza and one at Tula has been used to support this idea.

At Tula the chacmools have a standardised form with little variation in position or proportions.

A wide variety of materials were used to sculpt chacmools, including limestone and hard metamorphic and igneous rock types.

Both of the chacmools from the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan were clearly associated with Tlaloc.

Chacmools do not appear to have been worshipped, since they are never found within inner sanctuary of temples or shrines; it appears to have rather been a piece of religious paraphernalia used by the priesthood in the course of their duties.

Chacmools represent fallen warriors reclining on their backs with receptacles on their chests to receive sacrificial offerings.

Chacmools were placed in entrances in order to receive sacrificial offerings, including human blood and hearts.

Eduard Seler commented in the early 1960s that chacmools in Chichen Itza tended to be located in temple antechambers, where the bowl or disc gripped by the figure served to receive pulque as an offering.

Fourteen chacmools are known from Chichen Itza and twelve from Tula.

López Austin and López Luján 2001, p. 62. It has also been suggested that chacmools were used as a techcatl, or sacrificial stone over which victims were stretched so their hearts could be cut from their chests.

Miller 1985, p. 11. The chacmools in Tula also had an association with thrones or raised seating platforms, either in front of the throne or at the entrance to a chamber containing a throne.

Miller 1985, p. 12. Two chacmools have been recovered that were associated with the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital.

Miller 1985, p. 7. The 19th century discovery of chacmools in both central Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula helped to promote the idea of a Toltec empire but the chacmool sculptures may have had their origin in the Maya region.

Miller 1985, p. 9. The chacmools at Chichen Itza were found in a combination of chacmool, throne and serpent column; this chacmool-throne-serpent complex was associated with rulership during the Early Postclassic period.

There is great variation among individual chacmools, with some possessing heads that are right-facing and others left-facing, and some with the heads facing upwards; some examples have movable heads.

Three uses have generally been attributed to chacmools.