Chac Mool
A chac mool is a reclining stone figure with its head turned to one side, knees drawn up and a flat basin held on its stomach, set at the entrances of temples across Mesoamerica from Toltec Tula to Aztec Tenochtitlan and Maya Chichen Itza. The basin served as a receptacle for offerings, and in Aztec contexts the figure is especially linked to the rain god Tlaloc and to the hearts and blood of sacrifice. The name was coined in 1875 by the explorer Augustus Le Plongeon, who found one at Chichen Itza and dubbed it 'chac mool' from Maya terms, so it is a modern label for figures whose original nam