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LO SAGRADO Y LA NATURALEZA<br />

La fauna y los elementos naturales como la tierra, el fuego, viento y el<br />

agua, han sido representados en la escultura precolombina.<br />

Los animales adquieren una doble significación para los pueblos<br />

originarios: representan lo sagrado y a la vez su fuente de alimentación.<br />

En el plano sagrado, plumas, pieles, colmillos, entre otros, eran parte de la<br />

indumentaria para enfrentarse a la vida o la guerra y honrar a sus dioses.<br />

Muchos animales como los monos, jaguares y ciertas aves tenían valor<br />

sagrado, personificando dioses; con esto, los pueblos de Mesoamérica<br />

coinciden con la cultura griega, la cual tenía una corte de dioses que<br />

adoptaban apariencias zoomorfas o se representaban en forma alegórica<br />

de animal.<br />

La insistente presencia de animales, radica en la creencia del “nahual”, un<br />

animal que acompañaba a los seres humanos en su tránsito por el mundo<br />

terrenal.<br />

THE SACRED AND THE NATURE<br />

Wildlife and natural elements such as earth, fire, wind, and water have<br />

been represented in the pre-Colombian sculpture.<br />

The animals acquire a double significance for native towns. They<br />

represent the sacred and at the same time their source of feeding. In the<br />

sacred plane, feathers, fur, fangs, among others, were part of the clothing<br />

to face life or war and honor their gods.<br />

Many animals, such as monkeys, jaguars and certain birds had a sacred<br />

value; which would personify their gods. With this, the towns of<br />

Mesoamerica are equal with Greek culture; in which a court of gods,<br />

adopted zoomorphic looks or represented an animal in an allegoric shape.<br />

The persistent presence of animals, were a belief of the “nahual”, an<br />

animal that would accompany human beings in their passage through<br />

the underworld.<br />

Vaso Ceremonial, periodo clásico. Los cánones estéticos precolombinos no<br />

siempre han comulgado con los occidentales. En este incensario del periodo<br />

clásico observamos un rostro humano deformado: con ojos de tornado y la<br />

lengua de fuera, que puede denotar la imagen del Dios del Sol.<br />

Ceremonial Glass, classic period. The pre-Colombian aesthetic canons not<br />

always have agreed with the western. In this censers of the classic period we<br />

observ a human face distorted: with eyes turned and the tongue out, that may<br />

denote the image of the God of the Sun.<br />

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