Meso-America 1500 BCE - 1500 CE Olmec 1200-900 bce flourished Jaguar Teotihuacan 350-650 CE flourished Pyramid of the Sun, Moon & Queltzalcoatl (Feathered Serpent) Tlaloc Maya 1100 BC-1500 CE flourished Ball court Bonampak c. 790 CE Chichen Itza800-1000CE Caracol Temple Castillo Pyramid Ball Court Chacmool – Jaguar King Aztec1300-1525 CE flourished Goddess of the Moon Coyolxauhqui

Art of the Americas – Pre-Columbian Meso America & The Andes 1500 BCE-1500 CE

Olmec 1200-900 BCE

Meso-America Ball Court Begins with Olmec (figure R) Similar to this one at Monte Alban (Teotihuacan)

La Venta Heads #1 left #4 below 850-700 BCE

Tres Zapotes Head, Vera Cruz La Venta # 3

Jaguar – top South American Predator Olmec Jaguar

Olmec Seated Jaguar (were jaguar) San Lorenzo c. 1200-900 BCE 35” Block-like form Jaguar merged with human child = were-jaguar

Olmec were jaguars Obsidian, jade stone

OLMEC Seated Female Figure with Mirror Ornament. La Venta, Mexico. Jade & hematitel Crawling baby, ceramic, hollow 700-500 BC.

Once identified as Mayan Teotihuacan c. 350 CE Once identified as Mayan

View of Pyramid of Sun from Pyramid of Moon c. 350 BCE

Pyramid of the Moon Teotihuacan c. 350 BCE

Temple of Quelzalcoatle (Feathered Serpent) at Teotihuacan c. 300 bce 80 warrior skelatons found beneath temple

Qelzalcoatl (feathered serpent) & Tlaloc (rain god)

Map of Maya Empire c1100 bce- 1500 CE

Mayan Lords stone reliefs (Palenque top) Mayan Lord 6th wood – Mayan Lords stone reliefs (Palenque top)

Maya Leiden Plate Jade 8 ½”

Mayan ball court Copan c. 800 bce

Mayan ball players

Maya Bonampak Murals c. 790 CE reconstructed 3 rooms at temple site in Chiapas Room 2 below R aftermath of battle Aug. 6th 792 ce

Bonampak 792

“Borgia” Codex 14-15th century

Maize god, Palenque stone 750 ce Moon Goddess Maya, clay Maize god, Palenque stone 750 ce

Temple (caracol), castillo top L & warrior temple top R Maya Chitzen Itza c. 800-1300 CE Temple (caracol), castillo top L & warrior temple top R

Chocmool (Jaguar King) 3’6” high Chitzen Itza 800-1300 CE Temple of the Warriors Chocmool (Jaguar King) 3’6” high

Castillo aka Temple of Kukulcan (Feathered Serpent) Name of King who founded Chichen Itza 9-13th centuries

Chitzen Itza Ball Court 9-13th

Invaders of Chitzen Itza – the Toltecs. C. 800 & later Aztecs c Invaders of Chitzen Itza – the Toltecs? C. 800 & later Aztecs c. 1400 occupy site

Aztec Calendar of Sun 15th century, stone

Aztec Mother Goddess, Grandmother, Lady of the Serpent , Earth Goddess COATLICUE Aztec Mother Goddess, Grandmother, Lady of the Serpent , Earth Goddess Gives birth to sun, moon, all celestial beings

Aztec Moon Goddess Coyolxauhqui 15th century 88” diameter Brother Huitzilopochtil kills sister for beheading mother

Aztec Eagle Warrior, clay 15th century 67”

Aztec sacrifice of captives

Spanish Conquistador vs Aztec Eagle Warrior 15th century

Diego Rivera mural 20th Eagle Warrior & Conquistador

Aztec Huitzilopochtli (blue hummingbird obsidian knife God of Sun?)

R leg olmec fish monster (top) dragon below)

Olmec were-jaguar

MAYA Stela 11 Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala 200-50 BC Granite 198.1 x 67.9 x 18.1 cm Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City. Stela 11 Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala 200-50 BC Granite 198.1 x 67.9 x 18.1 cm Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City.

MAYA Maize God Plate Portraying Enthroned King. Maya Area. AD 200-400. Ceramic with pigment. Diameter approx. 28 cm. The Art Institution, New York