HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Huaca, Spondylus, Echinopsis Pachanoi
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History of art 88 lecture 3 chav n de hu ntar (andes) and materialist looking. Iconography: symbols or pictures that can be treated as textual information. Pendant pupil: the pupil of the eye appears to hang from the top of the eyelid. Huaca: (quechua and aymara) a sacred thing/person/place/spirit; alternatively, Ontological: study of the nature of being and consciousness. Chav n de hu ntar (central highlands/andes or peru) ca. 900-500bce a pilgrimage site likely home to oracles (supernatural being with social lives); not created to be efficient or administrative. The smiling god stone relief, chav n de hu ntar: holding a strombus shell (conch, male, mountains) and a spondylus shell (oyster, female, coastal) confluence of ecological and cultural zones, were-jaguar fangs, pendant pupil (indirect connections between the. Old temple: filled with corridors that created a maze and hid the sacred place. The black and white portal: named for the color of the stones that create the portal.
