Meso American Vocab Flashcards
(31 cards)
What is celt?
a prehistoric stone or metal implement with a beveled cutting edge
What is cinnabar
is the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury
Used color paints and as one of red coloring agents used in tattoo dyes
What is La Venta
Olmec Ceremonial Center
What is a Nahual
A spiritual animal guide/part of you
What’s a caiman
A type of crocodile / Olmec “Dragon”
Had aspects of a Harpy Eagle, a toad, a jaguar, and/or a snake
What is Cranial Deformation?
The shaping of the skull / was a form of beauty
What are colossal heads?
Giant heads made out of stone
Represented rulers or ball players
What is the Olmec Heartland?
San Lorezo, La Venta, and Chalcatzingo
Who is Mathew Stirling?
A man who excavated Omlec sites
What was the World Mountain?
Complex C “Mound C-1” / The Great Pyramid in La Venta
What is “pars pro toto”?
Parts for the whole / Parts of all
What is a Harpy Eagle?
A very big bird that had had significance to Olmec Culture
Very big tufts of feathers on its head
What is Olmeca?
People of rubber
What was Offering #4, La Venta?
17 stone figures with six celts
Appears to be a type of ceremony
What are Selta?
A upright stone slab/pillar often covered in relief sculptures
What are were-jaguars?
Shamans/rulers that tranform into or represent these alter-egos
Used as shaman practice
A deity
What is a quetzal?
A feathered serpent
What is a shaman?
People that are connected to the spiritual realm / had spiritual power
Aided the unwell
What is a sarcophagus?
A stone coffin // a tomb that had the appearance of a dragon
What is the bufo marinus?
A frog/ a toad
Used as a hallucinogenic
What is Chalcatzingo?
a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Morelos
The Olmec Frontier
Evidence of human sacrifices
What is a pectoral?
A type of chest ornament
What is Huahpu?
One lord
What is Xbalanque?
Jaguar people
