Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in the Mochica Religion.
Somogy| N° d'inventaire | 13710 |
| Format | 19 x 26.5 |
| Détails | 103 p., 86 figures, paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2010 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782757203392 |
The Moche civilization (1st-8th century), as evidenced by the great ceremonial and funerary sites of the northern coast of Peru, ranks, along with the Inca Empire, among the greatest indigenous cultures of the Andes. Its ceramic productions, of surprising technical virtuosity and realism, form a sexual and sacrificial imagery unique in pre-Columbian art. This iconography, of a ritual and funerary nature, illustrates, among other things, the passage of the Moche lords from the world of the living to the world of the dead and then to that of the deified mythical ancestors, guarantors of the vitality of the world. The sexual scenes depicted by ceramics are metaphors to express both the relationships between the living, the dead and the gods and the processes of regeneration of nature.
The Moche civilization (1st-8th century), as evidenced by the great ceremonial and funerary sites of the northern coast of Peru, ranks, along with the Inca Empire, among the greatest indigenous cultures of the Andes. Its ceramic productions, of surprising technical virtuosity and realism, form a sexual and sacrificial imagery unique in pre-Columbian art. This iconography, of a ritual and funerary nature, illustrates, among other things, the passage of the Moche lords from the world of the living to the world of the dead and then to that of the deified mythical ancestors, guarantors of the vitality of the world. The sexual scenes depicted by ceramics are metaphors to express both the relationships between the living, the dead and the gods and the processes of regeneration of nature.