Olmec Fantastic Creature, 900 BCE - 400 CE
Terracotta
10.5
PF.0329
Olmec mythology is filled with fantastic beings, freakish monsters who seem to survive from a more chaotic age before men and beasts took separate identities. This is a particularly fascinating...
Olmec mythology is filled with fantastic beings, freakish monsters who seem to survive from a more chaotic age before men and beasts took separate identities. This is a particularly fascinating example--a creature with a distorted human head, a bloated body, and a powerful tail like a kangaroo. The iconographic significance of this figure has vanished from memory, but the image continues to perturb, to challenge our complacent explanations of the human past.
Literature
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