Puebla Tehuacán

In the Shield of Puebla two snakes converge at the top and drawings depicting the great pilgrimage made by the first settlers of the area fill the inside quarters. The shield distinguishes the four suns which humanity has gone through; at the top the God, Tláloc, mountains Citláltepetl, Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, the Matlacuelle or Malinche.

In the top left quarter three factory chimneys topped with smoke on a shuttle or cog, while the top right quarter a dam and the signs leading to electricity. The lower left quarter depicts a gun, the sign of the libertarian struggles of the Mexican people. The lower right corner is a picture of corn growing in the palm of a hand with a field to the background. In the center, one evokes the colonial era and a day of national pride; The Battle of Puebla on May 5 1864, "arms were covered with glory."

The Quetzalcoatl bird represents the good in a constant struggle against evil Deidificado in Texclatipocatl. They mean that the arrival of the conquistadors greatly effected people of the Mexican Altiplano who were at the time expecting the fifth sun. The two corn cobs represent the God Tláloc, whose eyes were transformed into water which then was used to spread the cement for the pyramids.

The top left quarter symbolizes the industry that came to populate Puebla while the top right quarter represents the higher law of the electric plant, Necaxa. The lower right quarter shows the return of the indigenous land to their communities while the lower left quareter depicts the weapon surrendered to the revolutionaries of 1910. The slogan "UNITED IN TIME, ON THE EFFORT IN THE JUSTICE AND THE HOPE", it means the unity of the state of Puebla as a free and sovereign state.