D.C., this statue of a goddess giving birth (above) was widely believed to be a pre-Columbian artifact representing Tlazolteotl, a complex Aztec goddess. An Earth deity, she also ruled over the ...

It's an object that's always intrigued me, and I'm less and less sure that I understand it - it's the statue of a woman ... in the Aztec language, 'filth goddess'. She was a figure of fertility ...