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Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
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