Taxco (Rancho Alegre) Sterling Money Clip-Necklace-Pendant Cipactli "Crocodile"

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True native artistry NOT folk art!
I sale complete sterling silver pendants with necklaces for what others sale just a pendant for or LESS! Most are book pieces, all highly collectible by Taxco's top tier design names!
Expertly carved with a realistic flare! Extremely RARE and a Cipactli "Crocodile" Deity
This treasure is stunning and made by Rancho Alegre who is a noted Maestro by Hougart in THE LITTLE BOOK OF MEXICAN SILVER TRADE AND HALLMARKS pg 52, 102, 144 Rancho Alegre was established in 1956 by Pedro Perez
Rare Vintage Taxco Sterling Silver Money Clip with a carved Aztec Mayan Cipactli "Crocodile" Deity . Expertly made with a nice closure to ensure the bills stay nice in the holder. It also comes with a easily removable native made necklace that is comprised of sterling and Lava beads. You can wear just the necklace or the necklace with the clip as a pendant or use it as a money clip. A 3 way combo!
Measures approx 2.5 INCHES X 2 INCHES wide
Hallmarked: Sterling 925 Taxco Rancho Alegre AL
Weight is 21.3 grams
The removable Necklace is approx 18" long and has a sterling silver traditional native figure 8 and hook closure system
Would be a great gift or a treat to yourself. Rock that ancestry every time you pay for something. Great attention grabber and discussion starter.
An outstanding example of true Native American Artistry!
If you are a serious collector then this is your chance!
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More about below: Cipactli
Cipactli (Classical Nahuatl: Cipactli "crocodile" or "caiman") was the first day of the Aztec divinatory count of 13 X 20 days (the tonalpohualli) and Cipactonal "Sign of Cipactli" was considered to have been the first diviner. In Aztec cosmology, the crocodile symbolized the earth floating in the primeval waters. According to one Aztec tradition, Teocipactli "Divine Crocodile" was the name of a survivor of the flood who rescued himself in a canoe and again peopled the earth. In the Mixtec Vienna Codex (Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I), Crocodile is a day associated with dynastic beginnings.
In Aztec mythology, Cipactli was a primeval sea monster, part crocodilian, part fish, and part toad or frog, with indefinite gender. Always hungry, every joint on its body was adorned with an extra mouth. The deity Tezcatlipoca sacrificed a foot when he used it as bait to draw the monster nearer. He and Quetzalcoatl created the earth from its body.
Karl A. Taube has noted that among the Formative-period Olmec and the pre-Hispanic Maya peoples, crocodilians were identified with rain-bringing wind, probably because of the widespread belief that wind and rain clouds are “breathed” out of cave openings in the earth. A series of Olmec-style basreliefs from Chalcatzingo in the state of Morelos portrays crocodilians breathing rain clouds from their upturned mouths. Portable green stone Olmec sculptures depict crocodilians in similar positions, indicating that they are probably also breathing.
In the Maya tzolk'in, the day Cipactli corresponds to Imix. In the Mayan Popol Vuh, the name of the earthquake demon, Sipakna, apparently derives from Cipactli. Sipakna is the demon Sipak of 20th century Highland Maya oral tradition. In Migian, Cipactli is Quanai.
Earth Monster (Cipactli), 15th century, Brooklyn Museum
In other versions, Cipactli is called Tlaltecuhtli, a deity referred to as the "earth monster".
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