Dig It - 5/1/23
Welcome Fellow Seekers,
It is not often we can be transported to the Past, when the veil between the Past and Present is lifted, when the segments of time collide and boundaries are crossed. Well, when I look at these Mayan figures from the island of Jaina, in Campeche, Mexico, I can almost believe they are alive and sitting before me.
On the left is a Lady with ritual scarification on her face wearing a triangular cape called a quechquemitl in Aztec, jade ear spools and necklace. On the right is a Lord wearing an elaborate headdress with a splay of Quetzal feathers, jade ear spools and necklace. The lower part of his face is covered by a beard or perhaps a lower jaw of a human or animal? The detail and realism of these figurines is just amazing, making them seem so life like.
In actuality, these figurines are whistles, the sound of which must have some connection with the Dead. Were they to call the dead or to scare them away? They date to roughly A.D. 500-800, when the Island of Jaina was an important trading port. The figurines were collected in the 1960s. Seek Out!