Comparative Guts

Comparative
Guts

Precolombian Americas

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Precolombian Whole
Precolombian Solid
Precolombian Coil

Battle scene at Cacaxtla

Late Classic altar at the site of Xunantunich

Battle scene and their aftermath

Depiction of an eagle devouring a human heart at the site of Tula

Early Zapotec stone relief of a sacrificial victim with a disembowelled abdomen

Mythic battle between a crocodilian creature

Depiction of a mortuary bundle at Teotihuacan

A depiction of a man being attacked and mauled by a jaguar

A segment of a Mayan hieroglyphic text, highlighting the stylised glyph for ‘heart’

Stylized heart rendered in sheet gold