PXL_20250424_224118571

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:49:22 +0100

GREAT JAGUAR
The jaguar Pitao Peeche in Zapotec was a deified animal, being
depicted in a naturalistic way, with symbolic elements
associated with their attributions. The revered feline related
with land, water, fertility, war and sacrifice. Its potent
growled he proclaimed him as the Lord of the caves and mountains. In this
sculpture, the hockey evokes these oddities, symbol of the entrance
to the underworld. Considered sacred it was identified related
with the genealogy of the rulers to whom the
presents ataviados looking like clothes the skins, head and still
with the feline tail. This piece, the one of greatest proportions of his
genus, was recovered in the archaeological excavations of the great
capital, whose original name seems to have been Cerro del Jaguar.
Provenance: West Platform of Mount Alban.
Chronology: Protoclassic, Monte Alban II, 100 BC .- 100 AD.