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Did you know that great civilizations existed in Mexico long ago? The oldest of these civilizations is that of the Olmecs of the Gulf Coast of Mexico. This civilization began about 3,200 years ago. It ended about 2,400 years ago. The Olmec civilization is called the “mother culture” of civilizations that developed in Mexico.
The religion of the Olmec people significantly influenced the social development and mythological world view of Mesoamerica. Scholars have seen echoes of Olmec supernatural in the subsequent religions and mythologies of nearly all later pre-Columbian era cultures.
Scholars of the first radiocarbon carne together at the 1942 Mexican Society of round-table meeting to discuss the definition and symbolism of the Olmec art style and its chronological to the Classic Maya.
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.
Religious and political power seem to have been fused in Olmec society, producing a form of theocratic authority. In general, therefore, the control over human labor to the degree indicated by these building and trading activities, together with the inferred. 2. Bernal, op. cit. (in note 1 ) 49.
17 mar 2021 · This study of Olmec iconography includes a dictionary of Olmec motifs and symbols, a section devoted exclusively to the identification of ten gods from the Olmec pantheon, and brief speculative statements on the meaning of Olmec mythology.
13 lut 2024 · Olmecs -- Religion, Serpent worship, Indians of Mexico -- Religion, Indians of Central America -- Religion Publisher Norman : University of Oklahoma Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 522.5M
