Archeology
Yesterday, on my search for archeological facts, i discovered the Lanzón from the Chavín people.
The Chavín, a South American preliterate civilization, great astronomers, established a trade network and developed agriculture by 900 BCE, according to some estimates and archeological finds.
Artifacts were found at a site called Chavín in modern Peru at an elevation of 3,177 meters.
Chavín civilization spanned 900 to 300 BCE.
They built large temples, the largest early buildings in Peru, which allowed them to observe the stars and the movement of the sun and the moon therefore predicting climatic changes that benefited agriculture.
Those in charge of the temples were priests also know as shamans.
They occupied the top of the social hierarchy and became early astronomers who were venerated by locals as having special powers and connection with the gods.
The inhabitants in Chavín believed that these priests communicated with the gods and to honor them they built huge sculptures such as the Lanzon Monolith, Tello Obelisk, the Raymondi Stella and carved heads in their building walls.
These sculptures represented a metaphor of the universe as the Chavín inhabitants understood it.
On the center of this archeological place, it's a piramidal temple, and in the core of it, the Lanzón.
As some of you may know, the practice of offering people to the gods was somewhat common among the south americans (can't talk to much about my people... but it was, it's a fact), and they did it in this place.
The Lanzón pit was the place where they sacrifice people, and on its back was the graveyard of the people sacrificed.
The Lanzón
Chavín, South American, Pre-Inca Civilization
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| Lanzón |
Yesterday, on my search for archeological facts, i discovered the Lanzón from the Chavín people.
The Chavín, a South American preliterate civilization, great astronomers, established a trade network and developed agriculture by 900 BCE, according to some estimates and archeological finds.
Artifacts were found at a site called Chavín in modern Peru at an elevation of 3,177 meters.
Chavín civilization spanned 900 to 300 BCE.
They built large temples, the largest early buildings in Peru, which allowed them to observe the stars and the movement of the sun and the moon therefore predicting climatic changes that benefited agriculture.
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| Graveyard |
Those in charge of the temples were priests also know as shamans.
They occupied the top of the social hierarchy and became early astronomers who were venerated by locals as having special powers and connection with the gods.
The inhabitants in Chavín believed that these priests communicated with the gods and to honor them they built huge sculptures such as the Lanzon Monolith, Tello Obelisk, the Raymondi Stella and carved heads in their building walls.
These sculptures represented a metaphor of the universe as the Chavín inhabitants understood it.
On the center of this archeological place, it's a piramidal temple, and in the core of it, the Lanzón.
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| Temple |
As some of you may know, the practice of offering people to the gods was somewhat common among the south americans (can't talk to much about my people... but it was, it's a fact), and they did it in this place.
 |
| Lanzón |
The Lanzón pit was the place where they sacrifice people, and on its back was the graveyard of the people sacrificed.
The Chavin civilization story is worth to know.
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| The Shaman |
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