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This
seat takes to tablets decorated with felines in pairs
and mythical beings in procession towards the access.
In its center probably the call Obelisco Tello was elevated
now, that represents the cosmos in form of dragoons
with allusive reasons the cycle for the water. It could
also have served like solar clock. The iconography of
the Obelisco Tello allows to glimpse the religious doctrine
Chavín. In him we appreciated two mythical lizards
(crocodiles with bird tail), of opposed sexes, united
in the sexual act contranatura, interchanging physiological
flows that emanate of their sexual mouths, noses and
organs, to way of serpents. The back legs of the deities
are located underneath the level of the ground, whereas
the advantages in the sky. Its sides the jaguar represents
the masculine deity and the fishing eagle to the feminine
one, suggesting the distribution of the power in both
bordering of the universe (of that time), the forest
and the sea. The Obelisco Tello is a little smaller
than the Lanzon. It measures 2.52 ms of height and 32
cm wide.
In
the platform of the seat two galleries existed, one
that contained great amount of used marine shells in
the cult, and another call the líticos Gallery
of the Offerings, that kept hundreds from vasijas, objects
and rest of human beings and burned animals.
Another
important detail was the Heads You nail, those that
were stone heads which they adorned the outer facade
of the complex Chavín de Huántar. At the
moment it is left one in his place of origin single.
The archaeologists have called them thus because the
nape of the neck crosses the wall as if it was a nail.
These heads you nail are anthropomorphous, but with
felinoides attributes. They appear with the open eyes
and the closed mouth.
These
vestiges demonstrate the existence of ceremonies and
the great root and is present at of the religion in
the settler of the time. This old temple was dedicated
to the cult of the water through oráculo supraregional,
to that the settlers of the mountain range and the norcentral
and central coast went. .
The
New Temple is an extension of the right wing of the
Old Temple, called the Castle. He is much more great
that the old one, since it continues through platforms
and it culminates in a great sunk seat quadrangular.
All the platforms counted on líticas stairs.
Lamentably it is known little of the function of this
complex, since we ignored the character of the main
divinity and the ritual operation.
The
famous Raimondi Wake that represents the God of the
Walking sticks (prototype of later images, like that
in the Cover of the Sun of the Tiahuanaco culture, frequently
identified with the God Viracocha), but one does not
know its original location and its context. It was thus
baptized in tribute to the naturalist and Italian geographer
Antonio Raimondi, who took to Lima for his study and
conservation to it. This was carved in granite stone,
in rectangular form of laja, and it measures 1.98 ms
of height by 74 cm wide and 17 cm in thickness. .
Chavin
of Huantar never was isolated nor solitary. One knows
rather that it had contact with other cultures that
occupied diverse zones, sometimes very distant. This
took to Julio C. Tello to show that Chavín was
the cradle of the Peruvian and first civilization from
which the later cultures of our country were derived.
Nevertheless, later investigations indicated that Chavín
was not the cradle itself, but one of the most important
points of our civilization, since had to do with all
the later cultures.
Chavín
had contacts demonstrated with a religious tradition
seated in the North part of the coast and the mountain
range del Peru. In recent excavations this relation
was demonstrated fehacientemente, when being in the
environs of the locality of Puémape, in Cajamarca,
Chavín ceramics next to those of the Cupisnique
culture.
The
presence of the Chavín culture also stands out
in the high forest, as it is possible to be appreciated
in the ceramics located in the Amazon region.
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