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Authentic Mayan Pre-Classic Volcanic Stone Sculpture

Lot # 803001

1919 E Kilgore Service Road, Kalamazoo, MI, 49001

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Item Description

Authentic Mayan Pre-Classic Volcanic Stone Sculpture

This is NOT a Tourist Trinket, this is an Authentic Mayan Pre-Classic Volcanic Stone Sculpture (Fine Antiquity/Ethnographic Art). Weight 1238 Grams, Height 8” Width 3.5” Depth 3”. Similar Pieces at Select Auction Houses sell for Thousands of Dollars (and sometimes tens & hundreds of thousands of dollars). This piece of South American Sacred Religious History is Thousands of Years Old and comes from the Estate Sale of a Professor of Archeology from Michigan State University in Lancing Michigan. Pre-Columbia, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Mayan Territories, Maya, Pre-Classic Period, Circa 1000 to 100 BCE. An Upright Armed, Seated Deity Figure, hand carved from porous volcanic stone. This figure perhaps represents a deity of the underworld given its expressive and abstract presentation defined by his upright arms, sizable and rounded head and upright position. The archaic visage is comprised of almond shaped eyes, ceremonial headdress, a closed mouth with full lips and arching eyebrows all beneath a bulbous brow line. This stone sculpture may have served as an informal funerary statue or was perhaps meant to guard the entrance to a sacred site used to communicate with or traverse to the underworld.

The Mayans were a particularly spiritual society that believed most everything in the world of the living had a connection to the underworld (world of the dead). The Mayan underworld is referred to as Xibalba, which roughly translates to “place of fear”. Archeologists believe that the Mayan fascination with the underworld may stem from the extensive cave systems which run beneath most of the Mayan territories of Southern Mexico and Central America and all the way to Guatemala. Mayan priests and shamans would ritualistically enter the cave systems, venturing deep within to find the threshold where the realm of the living and land of the dead met. They would conduct religious ceremonies, ritual sacrifices, and extend offers to the deities which controlled the underworld so as to garner favor in healing the sick and ensuring a fertile harvest, though the exact purpose for these spiritual journeys remains unclear.

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