Chacmool
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chacmool-265-16738338
title:
Chacmool
text:
A chacmool is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach. These figures possibly symbolised slain warriors carrying offerings to the gods; the bowl upon the chest was used to hold sacrificial offerings, including pulque, tamales, tortillas, tobacco, turkeys, feathers, and incense. In Aztec examples, the receptacle is a cuauhxicalli. Cha
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mesoamerican sculpture
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacmool
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date modified:
2024-03-17T18:22:22Z
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