What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc (4.6.6)? And by explore, I meant someone who was not burdened by the need to stay at one site, but he visited hundreds, if not a thousand Maya ruins, doing maps and also recording inscriptions. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc (4.6.62 a. a bloodletting ritual b. a sexual act c. a sacrifice of a child d. a play c an animal hunt 11. And we can understand by looking at all of these carvings, which are sometimes which sometimes affix his signature, how he developed, what fascinated him, how he grafted, in this instance, a political arrangement between a king and a magnate-lord onto a pattern that really gets into complex iconography or imagery. Lambs objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. That is, the reception is, in itself, a fascinating part of the process of their emplacement on this landscape. CUNO: Thank you, Steve, for joining me on this podcast. And so by walking around it, youre, in some ways, participating in whatever kinetic activity that involved. Ancient Maya limestone carving from Yaxchilan in modern Chiapas, Mexico, The lintel as displayed in the British Museum, Museo Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III, Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa, Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yaxchilan_Lintel_24&oldid=1109549671, Ethnographic objects in the British Museum, Artefacts from Africa, Oceania and the Americas in the British Museum, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 10 September 2022, at 14:44. And then the final touch, which really, really caused us great joy when we figured this out, is that the two underlings are literally also lifting the lintel itself. Two are explicitly named as being by him. The other thing about the lintel that intrigues us is down below, supporting these two very exalted individuals, are other people in the pecking order politically. And what were those pigments made of? We have the ruler himself, the king of Yaxchilan, who is embodying the sun; the magnate, whos seated by him, is representing the night and a time when maize grows. There seems to be a very context-specific use of genre designs. She has likely burned the paper to allow the blood to ascend to the gods, and to bring about the vision serpent. And also liked to indulge in himself the fun of roughing it, which mustve been every scouts dream. Non-structural Mayan ornamental lintel stone, from the Yaxchilan city site in Chiapas, southern Mexico. These are all of these small communities governed by nobles, some of the petty sort, some also like magnates. What an extraordinary title. And in fact, the largest indigenous group in the United States today are speakers of Mayan languages whove immigrated here. It mustve been an exceedingly uncomfortable hike. The site is host to an impressive number of structures and monumentsover 100and is especially famous for its high-quality relief carvings. HOUSTON: El Tunel is Laxtunich, in our opinion. He tended to be highly unreliable in any communications. Why are the Mayans into sacrificing themselves or someone and they depict the gods as these harsh deities that will kill them if they don't constantly try to sacrifice? An example from the Mycenaean Greece cultural period (c. 1600 1100 BCE) is the Treasury of Atreus in Mycenae, Greece. And we suspect that there was a great deal of sporting activity that took place on or off of these. Direct link to Emma.Horsefan.2004's post maby it was to show the d, Posted 6 years ago. Like Structure 23, carved lintels form the underside of each of the doorways on Structure 33. HOUSTON: The area is well endowed with carvings. Hieroglyphic stairways are also kinetically fascinating from an interpretive viewpoint because you, of course, walk up and down them, but what is often depicted on them, in terms of imagery, or recorded on them in terms of hieroglyphic inscriptions, would be a succession of rulers over time. Write AAA above the verb if it is active and PPP if it is passive. Though of no great commercial importance in any part of the . Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God, Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas, Teotihuacan: Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon. It took place because this area, which had been almost unimaginably remote until the sixties, suddenly experienced an influx of people coming from other parts of Guatemala; individuals and families being forced out of land by oligarchs or by a land grab by a few very wealthy people up in the highlands of Guatemala. Blood scrolls can be seen on her face. Bloodletting was also an act related to rebirth and rejuvenation. CUNO: Were there pots found at the same site as the lintel itself? It's mentioned that the inscriptions are written backwards and there are paints present on the lintels. Lady Xook (detail), Lintel 25, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum). Figure emerges from the mouth of a vision serpent (detail), Lintel 25, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum). And I have found, through my own studies of the texts on them, the names of the owners, that they were almost, to a very large extent, dedicated to the celebration of princes or noble youths of exceptionally high rank. Look closely at the detail below. HOUSTON: Today, its very much close to a number of millions. Its also a time in which theyre probably using a kind of lingua franca, the elites are speaking one language and its not at all clear that anyone else is communicating in that speech. Both king and queen are richly attired with Sun God pectorals. And in fact, we know these limestones are literally millions of years old. Throughout this considerable literature one encounters arguments and corrections as to which structures and doorways the various lintels, long removed from the site, originally pertained. One purpose or aim is purely intellectual. "Her image at the penance, the cut lady, Ix Kabal Xoc, female autocrat. An inscription on the lintel reads October 20, 681, the date of Lord Shield . The king is wearing his hair back with quetzal feathers indicating that he will also let blood in this ceremony. Lintel 24 was found in its original context alongside Lintels 25 and 26 in Structure 23 of Yaxchilan. Lintels 24 and 25 are on permanent display in the British Museum's Mexican Gallery. They obviously, from an abundance of evidence, injected a certain life and vitality into their carving. Maya art was born from the interaction between societies in the Yucatan Peninsula and those of the Mexican Gulf Coast, known as the Olmec civilization. Direct link to Kanga X (read bio)'s post How did they know how to , Posted a year ago. Since the rest of the costume is depicted without much abstraction, it is suggested that Maya kings may have literally attached a shrunken head to their head band as a representation of power. [3] As seen in this panel, Maya sculptors celebrated the human form in a naturalistic way, portraying royal individuals as they sit, stand, hold things, and interact with one another. But I think at least, there could be, wherever these monuments areand one is in a very securely known location, in a museum in Texaswe want to know, or at least to recognize, where they came from, so that that can be advertised and specified very precisely, because I do think transparency and honesty about these things are virtues, and that we can employ knowledge in their service. Wearing an exquisitely woven "huipil,"Lady K'abal Xook pulls a thorned rope through her tongue in the principal form of blood sacrifice perfomed by royal women. And there are lots of grounds for thinking that its both a specific date in historic time for the Classic Maya, but its also replicating overall creation, with the lifting of the sky. And Martin having been the cook on Jack Londons voyages. This limestone lintel is one of a series of three panels commissioned by Bird Jaguar IV for Structure 21 at Yaxchiln and was once set above the right-hand (north-west) doorway of the central chamber. Some of the most famous lintels are those on Structure 23a yotoot (palace building . Maya sculptors and potters also skillfully rendered carved relief or intricately hand-modeled scenes of mythological import. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. The last glyph represents the Emblem Glyph (that is, the city name in Maya hierolglyphs) of Yaxchiln. But why focus on Lady Xook rather than Shield Jaguar II exclusively? Direct link to Jin Park's post It's mentioned that the i, Posted 4 years ago. In fact, their canoe for these trips, The Vagabunda, is on display in the lobby of a mens club in Los Angeles called The Adventurers Club. Structure 23 has since collapsed. The reason for this is pretty obvious to me. It makes them tremendously exciting to study. Hooper 2006 A large and complete example of a type of carved panel (pare or korupe) fitted above the doorway of a chief's house, and later above the doorway of elaborately carved meeting houses (which began to be built around 1840). And he was well known for guiding and promoting the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Hes a bit of a turncoat. The uppermost describes Itzamnaaj Bahlam, where the second raised section describes Lady Xoc. It really begins to take off in about AD 100 or so. Each of the works is signed, indicating that the production of such works was regarded as a highly specialized skill rather than a trade. Direct link to Eric Bush's post Seems like a close 'cousi, Posted 4 years ago. If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website. But the pigments were cooked in such a way as to cause them to blend in a manner that could be successfully applied to the surface. 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