El firmamento y los hombres: arte rupestre en Momax
The Temple Hill (Cerro de los Teocalli) at Momax is characterized by an exceptional conjunction of elements; in a site with ceremonial architecture, a spacious rocky floor covered with engravings is complemented by an astronomical marker: the latter being an instrument for observing the firmament an...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repository: | Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.atenea.esteticas.unam.mx:article/2819 |
| Online Access: | https://www.analesiie.unam.mx/index.php/analesiie/article/view/2819 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Northern Mesoamerica ancient astronomy pecked cross-circles Chalchihuites rock art Huichol cosmovision Mesoamérica Septentrional astronomía antigua marcadores astronómicos arte rupestre Chalchihuites cosmovisión wixárika |
| Summary: | The Temple Hill (Cerro de los Teocalli) at Momax is characterized by an exceptional conjunction of elements; in a site with ceremonial architecture, a spacious rocky floor covered with engravings is complemented by an astronomical marker: the latter being an instrument for observing the firmament and the former a cosmogram. The authors have thus approached the study of this site from the viewpoints of their respective specialties in the study of northern Mesoamerica: archeoas-tronomy on the one hand, and the rock art of the Chalchihuites culture on the other. The article thus takes in the Teotihuacan heritage of around 600 CE in the context of the claimed alignment of astronomical markers, the Chalchihuites worldview at the time of the greatest expansion of that culture (600-900 CE), and the heritage still alive today among the Wixárika population of the Sierra Madre Occidental. Finally, the study of the rock carvings also reveals a period of vandalism that can be related to the troubled history of the Chalchihuites culture, in particular the abandonment of a large part of its territory towards the end of the ninth century. |
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