The reference to the golem suggests that he or she may also have been speaking of the Venus of Texcoco, the only life-size statue of a nude female in Aztec sculpture. It is an example of ixiptla–a person or thing animated by teotl, which in Aztec belief is the immaterial dynamic energy or intangible divine force that exists in everything, including inanimate objects and things in nature. It is known as animism in anthropology; the idea that souls or spirits exist not only in humans but also in anything in the natural environment (animals, plants, rocks, mountains, thunder, and so on). Although the Venus of Texcoco is a stone statue, she would have been painted and dressed to become a divine being. The statue would have been endowed with the characteristics of the deity by the jade or greenstone “heart” that was placed in the niche carved in her chest.