Funery Vessel (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Funery Vessel

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This funerary vessel from Isla Sacrificios once contained cremated remains. The bird imagery depicts the spirit of the deceased in a solar afterlife where ancestors lived in the form of birds and butterflies. Mesoamericans believed in a solar paradise, where the sun went in the evenings.

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Shankari Patel/UC Riverside

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