chavín de huántar
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"Of all of the ancient cultures I admire, that of Chavin amazes me the most. Actually, it has been the inspiration behind most of my art"
Pablo Picasso
•3,177 m elevation in highland Peru (central-northern Peru)
•Situated in a valley, where the Mosna and Wacheksa streams meet
•Located on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Blanca
•Chavin de Huantar is about half-way between the coast and the jungle of Peru
•Intersection of several major trade routes through the mountains, making it a strategically located capital
•Between the coast and the jungle, an ideal location for the dissemination and collection of both ideas and material goods.
Example of Pre-Inca irrigation system.
Maize
Quinoa
Llamas
•A gathering place for worship.
•Network of passageways and strategic ducts.
•U-shaped flat top pyramid.
•Sunken circular court.
•Clay friezes and low relief stone carvings.
•The New Temple “forms a continuum” with the Old Temple. And contained galleries and plazas.
•Findings of broken pots and bones from food, that this gallery was a storage area for ritual items.
•Many human bones also were found, which brings about the assumption that there was ritual cannibalism being practiced.
A startling five-meters-high stone figure whose imposing face - ferocious divinities mixing men, birds, tigers and snakes.
Similar iconographic images are seen
repeatedly in Chavin art, most coming
from the jungle to the east. Staff bearing
gods, human-animal combinations, and
priests and shamans transforming are the
most prevalent.
Features a zoomorphic figure dominated by cayman attributes, believed to narrate a cosmological myth. A slightly tapered 2.52 m tall .
Tenon-heads like this one once hung high on exterior walls at Chavín, encircling the temple . They are thought to represent stages of a drug-induced human-to-feline shamanic transformation.
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