These figures possibly symbolised slain warriors carrying offerings to the gods; the bowl upon the chest was used to hold sacrificial offerings, including pulque, tamales, tortillas, tobacco, turkeys, feathers and incense. In an Aztec example the receptacle is a cuauhxicalli a stone bowl to receive sacrificed human hearts.
Chacmools were often associated with sacrificial stones or thrones. Aztec chacmools bore water imagery and were associated with Tlaloc, the rain god.
Their symbolism placed them on the frontier between the physical and supernatural realms, as intermediaries with the gods.
Su questo recipiente venivano appoggiate le offerte in occasione dei sacrifici; nella cultura azteca, questi sacrifici potevano arrivare a sangue e cuori umani; secondo altri, avendo il recipiente forma circolare, richiamerebbe il cenote e avrebbe potuto contenere della semplice acqua, e avere la stessa funzione di uno , usato nella cultura nahuatl come strumento per la meditazione.
Il significato certo della posizione della statua rimane tuttavia sconosciuto. Il nome originale di questo tipo di sculture rimane sconosciuto. De positie van het beeld, en de betekenis van het beeld zelf zijn onbekend, hoewel vermoed werd dat zij een rol speelden bij het houden van mensenoffers, waarschijnlijk werden mensenharten op chac mools gepresenteerd aan de goden. De naam chac mool komt uit het Maya, en betekent "donderende voet". Deze naam werd voor het eerst gebruikt door de excentrieke 19e-eeuwse archeoloog Augustus Le Plongeon.
Desmond, Chacmool. In, David Carrasco, ed. The chacmool is a sculptural figure seated on the ground with its upper back raised, the head is turned to a near right angle, the legs are drawn up to the buttocks, elbows rest on the ground, and its hands hold a vessel, disk or plate on the stomach where offerings may have been placed or human sacrifices carried out.
The name, he said, was given by the ancient Maya to a powerful warrior prince who had once ruled Chiche'n Itza', and was represented by the sculpture. The chacmool excavated by the Le Plongeons was hidden near the village of Piste', about one kilometer from Chiche'n Itza', while they waited for permission from the president of Mexico, Lerdo de Tejada, to ship it to Philadelphia for the Centennial Exposition in It was discovered however, and then paraded with great fanfare into Me'rida, the capital of Yucata'n.
The Yucatecans considered it a great cultural treasure and put it on display, but within a short time the new president, Porfirio Diaz, recognized its importance and sent an armed military contingent to Me'rida to bring it to Mexico City where it has remained.
Chacmools are found in Central Mexico and Yucata'n with the greatest number concentrated at the archaeological sites of Tula, Hidalgo, and Chiche'n Itza', Yucata'n. A chacmool excavated from the Aztec Templo Mayor in Mexico City in the early s was found fully polychromed.
At Tula and Chiche'n Itza', the chacmool was usually placed in the antechamber of a temple presumably to receive offerings or for sacrifice. Aztec chacmools exhibit Tla'loc iconography, and the one unearthed at the Templo Mayor was found on the side of the Great Temple dedicated to Tla'loc.
Maya chacmools also have Tla'loc characteristics, and Tla'loc iconography is incised on the ear ornaments of the chacmool excavated at Chiche'n Itza' by Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon.
Other chacmools have been found at the archaeological site of Cempoala, in the states of Michoacan and Tlaxcala, and at the Maya site of Quirigua' in Guatemala. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Who is Filiberto? What does he do? What class is he from? What might he represent? What is a Chac Mool? Who was the Le Plongeon referred to on pg 5? Describe the Chac mool.
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