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Based on findings and historical studies, the Olmec religion was placed around at least 10 supernatural beings. Identities of the gods were… “The Jaguar God was the main god of the Olmec...
Here we trace the emergence of core Mesoamerican social structure and cultural traits and examine the role of the Olmec in shaping their development. We focus on the Olmec sites of the Mexican Gulf Coast region.
The Tree of Life as described by the ancient cultures of Egypt, Harrapan (Indus valley), Olmec, Maya, the Mimbres of the Southwest USA, and an Aboriginal Australian pictograph. All the depicted gesture signs used by these cultures are the same.
The Olmec of Mexico's southern Gulf coast (3100-2450 B.P.) are the most famed of Formative period Mesoamerica's early complex cultures, and are particularly noted for their elaborate stone monuments.
According to the Olmec religion, in early times, a human woman and a jaguar bred, creating a were-jaguar, or a creature both human and jaguar, who was the ancestor of all Olmecs.
Olmec rulers expressed their material and religious power in the first monumental stone art of Mesoamerica, remarkable for its sophistication and naturalism, as well as through massive buried offerings of wealth obtained from great distances.
Olmec figures. In the ancient discipline ofHathaYoga, this positionis alsoa fundamentalposture. Itis called Tadasana,themountainpose. Briefly, onestands with feet hip-widthapart and weight perfectly balanced from right to left and front to back. Starting with the feet, the body is firmed, bal anced and lifted, withthe vertebrae consciously
