In the above photograph, it is shown a Calendar Stone, also called Sunstone. The carvings in the stone represent the four cycles of creation and destruction. The skull at the center depicts the god Tonatiuh, the fifth sun. A similar sunstone is at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico.
Image courtesy of Corel Corporation.

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