This painting metaphorically describes Ometeotl.
Ometeotl can only be pictured metaphorically, They contain within Themselves the totality of existence, and are identical with all being, and do not exist symbolically like the other Teteo (gods) in a human-like form. Ometeotl, whose name means Dual Divinity, reveals themself to men as the oppositions which create our lived reality, so that life/death, sun/moon, light/dark, male/female, are different manifestations of Ometeotl on the plane of being. However, the dualities are not opposites, but rather different manifestations of the same reality, so that light and dark, for example, exist only in opposition to one another, cannot exist without one another, and are not opposites but merely different manifestations of a single truth.
Here, a symbol which represents Ometeotl appears at the center of the painting, a turquoise T shape which symbolises the heavens, the earth, and the underworld, which is to say, the totality of the cosmos. At the top and bottom of the painting are the sun and moon, representing the Duality. At the four corners appear the Four Tezcatlipca, who rule the four quadrants of the cosmos, which is to say, Ometeotl is space. Around the image and between the coils of the serpent appear the 20 days of the Nahuatl calendar, for Ometeotl is time. Nine Teteo stand upon the jewel glyph which encircles the symbol of Ometeotl. They represent nine aspects of existence. Their arms transform into snakes, each of which eats its neighbor, just as the nine snakes which encircle the image consume one another. For another truth of Ometeotl is that They are change; here, the Lord of the Sun, Tonatiuh, eats, and therefore transforms into Centeotl, the Teteo of Corn, who himself transforms into the Teteo of Death, and on and on. In the faith of our ancestors, the Teteo do not have individual identities and existences, but rather are manifestations of different aspects of Ometeotl, and reveal themselves as change.
You can find this piece as a print in my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/listing/682669179/ometeotl-large-print-aztec-mexican
