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Why do you think Aztec artists carved glyphs on the stone that represented hurricanes?

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Answer/Explanation: It was generally established that the four symbols included in the Ollin glyph represent the four past suns that the Mexica believed the earth had passed through. One theory is that the face at the center of the stone represents Tonatiuh, the Aztec deity of the sun.

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