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Chac·​mool. variants or Chacmol. ˈchäkˌmōl. plural -s. : a reclining figure with flexed knees found in the prehistoric remains of Mexico and Central America, especially in Yucatan.
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A chacmool is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself ...
Here come the. Spanish and they propose that you worship a God, killed by a coagulation, with a wounded flank, nailed on a cross. Sacrificed. An offering. What ...
and claimed the meaning to be "thunderous paw". The original name of the Chac Mool sculptures remains unknown.
After death, he was given the emblematic title “Chaacmol,” meaning something like “Paw swift like thunder” or “Great (perhaps bloody red) Jaguar Paw.” Soon ...
Sep 11, 2023 · In the Aztec context, it has been suggested that the Chaac Mool served as a techatl, or sacrificial stone, on which victims had their hearts ...
The term chacmool literally means 'red/great jaguar paw' in Yucatec Mayan language. A nineteenth-century explorer coined the term to describe the large ...
Jan 30, 2023 · Chac Mool: Chac Mool is a representation of the Mayan god of rain, who Filiberto acquires a statue of. He seemed like a regular statue to ...
He translated "Chaacmol" from Yucatecan Maya as the "paw swift like thunder" (Le Plongeon 1896:157). The name, he said, was given by the ancient Maya to a ...
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