Detail from a panel of the Codex Laud, a divinatory almanac, part of which depicts the four stages of a womans life as shown by the witch goddess
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Detail from a panel of the Codex Laud, a divinatory almanac, part of which depicts the four stages of a womans life as shown by the witch goddess

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Detail from a panel of the Codex Laud, a divinatory almanac, part of which depicts the four stages of a womans life as shown by the witch goddess, Top register left : The goddess is shown as a violent girl, the serpent of sexual sin between her legs. She is squatting naked to tempt the god Quetzalcoatl. Mexico. Mixtec style. before 1521.

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Werner Forman Archive/ Bodleian Library, Oxford

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Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman

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UMG12A26_309

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