玉米神（Chicomecoatl） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	玉米神（Chicomecoatl）
品名（英）	Maize Deity (Chicomecoatl)
入馆年号	1900年，00.5.51
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1400 - 公元 1550
创作地区	墨西哥（Mexico）
分类	石雕（Stone-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 14 英寸 × 宽 7 1/8 英寸 × 深 3 1/2 英寸 (35.6 × 18.1 × 8.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	在阿兹特克人崇拜的众多女性神灵中，负责农业生育的女性占据了重要地位。这座雕塑描绘了奇科梅科（七条蛇），一位食粮女神，尤其是食用植物和玉米。她光着脚站着，穿着一条长裙，用皮带固定住，右手拿着两个玉米穗。她的头部和大部分身体都被一个高耸的四边形头饰所覆盖，头饰正面饰有扭曲的元素，边角饰有花环。头饰比身材本身更高，被称为amacalli（"纸屋"）；这是玉米女神最典型的特征。在阿兹特克人的宗教仪式中，实际的"纸屋"头饰是由颜色鲜艳的硬树皮纸制成的精心制作的。玉米女神的模仿者们穿着它们这座雕塑是由一块狭窄的石板雕刻而成，呈扁平、棱角分明的风格。唯一突出的圆形形状是穗状物和人物的脸，它从头饰的开口向外张望，仿佛从一扇敞开的大门望过去在阿兹特克时代大量生产的小生育数字，通常在艺术上并不出众，可能是家庭偶像。
介绍（英）	Among the many female deities worshipped by the Aztecs, those responsible for agricultural fertility held a prominent place. This sculpture depicts Chicomecoátl (seven serpents), a goddess of sustenance, especially of edible plants and corn. She is shown standing on bare feet wearing a long skirt held in place with a belt, and holding in her right hand two maize ears. Her head and most of her body are covered by a towering quadrangular headdress adorned with twisted elements across the front and rosettes at the corners. Taller than the figure itself, the headdress is known as amacalli ("paper house"); it is the most typical attribute of the corn goddess. During Aztec religious rituals, actual "paper house" headdresses were elaborate constructions made of brightly colored stiff bark paper. They were worn by corn goddess impersonators. The sculpture is carved from a narrow stone slab in a flat, angular style. The only projecting, rounded forms are the cobs and the figure's face, which peers out from the opening in the headdress as if looking through the open door of a house front. Small fertility figures, often artistically undistinguished, were mass produced during Aztec times and probably served as household idols.