Dig It - 8/26/24
Welcome Fellow Seekers, It is not often we can be transported to the past, when the veil between the past and present is lifted, and 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 wearing a triangular cape called a quechquemitl in Aztec. She wears a jade necklace and ear spools, and has ritual scarification on her face. On the right is a Lord wearing an elaborate headless with a splay of Quetzal feathers, jade ear spools and necklace. The lower part of his face is covered by a beard, or what is perhaps the lower jaw of a human or animal.
The detailed realism of these figurines is just amazing and makes 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 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!