Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations: Shamanic Elements in Prehistoric Funerary Contexts in South AmericaArchaeopress, 2001 - 143 páginas This volume has its origins in a symposium on South American Prehistory that took place at the Chicago 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 1999. The 11 papers here reveal a pre-Hispanic world rich in metaphor and symbolism relating human beings to their origins and ancestral past, the wider natural world and their place within it. The shamanic world is one wherein symbols and symbolic behaviour are actively employed in mediating with the 'Otherworld' and its visionary inhabitants. The sites visited include Macchu Picchu, the Moche Mountains, and Coastal Ecuador. |
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... fertility and reproduction of land and sea resources are among the mythical themes depicted in Moche mountain scenes . The role of mountain worship in Andean cosmology - past and present - is discussed along with death and rebirth ...
... fertility and reproduction of land and sea resources are among the mythical themes depicted in Moche mountain scenes . The role of mountain worship in Andean cosmology - past and present - is discussed along with death and rebirth ...
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... fertility rituals and / or initiations conducted by shaman - priests to promote abundance at sea and on the land . A constant element in initiations and fertility rituals wherever they may occur in the world is the theme of death and ...
... fertility rituals and / or initiations conducted by shaman - priests to promote abundance at sea and on the land . A constant element in initiations and fertility rituals wherever they may occur in the world is the theme of death and ...
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... fertility were held by the Moche peoples . A more graphic indication of the possible connection between the mountain scenes and ritual fertility can be seen in the sexual content of some pieces . The exposure of the genitals of two of ...
... fertility were held by the Moche peoples . A more graphic indication of the possible connection between the mountain scenes and ritual fertility can be seen in the sexual content of some pieces . The exposure of the genitals of two of ...
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Shamanic Cosmology Embodied in Valdivia VIIVIII Mortuary Contexts from the Site | 19 |
Fruitful Death The Symbolic Meanings of Cucurbits in the Late Formative Period of Coastal Ecuador | 37 |
Making Spiritual Contact Snuff Tubes and Other Mortuary Objects from Coastal Ecuador | 51 |
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