The drawing surface would be delineated using gridded guidelines, snapped onto the wall using string coated in red pigment dust (very much like chalk lines used by modern carpenters). This grid helped the artists properly proportion the figures and lay out the scenes. Scene elements were drafted out using red paint, corrections noted in black paint, and then the painting was executed one color at a time. Even on carved relief, many elements in a scene would be executed only in paint and not cut into the surface. The drawing surface would be delineated using gridded guidelines, snapped onto the wall using string coated in red pigment dust (very much like chalk lines used by modern carpenters). This grid helped the artists properly proportion the figures and lay out the scenes. Scene elements were drafted out using red paint, corrections noted in black paint, and then the painting was executed one color at a time. Even on carved relief, many elements in a scene would be executed only in paint and not cut into the surface.
This technique is literally called the dotting technique, and was
popular amongst the neo-impressionists. In painting, this technique can
also be called pointillism.
I believe the correct answer is gods.
When Cortés first arrived with his army to
Tenochtitlan, the capital of Aztec empire, Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotzi, the ninth ruler,
believed Cortés to be the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, whom they credited with the
creation of humans among other notable feats, was set to return to Earth.
