#tamtoc

[sycer1813]

Tantoc, San Luis Potosí.

[tlatollotl]

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamtoc

'Tamtoc, Tamtok o Tamohí' (téenek para "lugar de las nubes de agua") es un yacimiento arqueológico de la cultura huasteca, se encuentra en el municipio de Tamuín en el estado mexicano de San Luis Potosí, en lo que hoy en día se conoce como la región de la Huasteca. Originalmente se calculó que el florecimiento de este sitio tuvo lugar entre el año 900 y 1100 d.C., es decir, durante el Período Posclásico mesoamericano, sin embargo recientes hallazgos —particularmente el Monumento 32— han hecho pensar a los arqueólogos que el florecimiento pudo ocurrir en el año 600 d. C.

[mcdonalddraws]

Nada como #TAMTOC 😍 (en Zona Arqueológica Tamtoc, san Luis Potosi)

[mcdonalddraws]

En lo más alto de #TAMTOC (Sobre los 100 mts) 😱 (en Zona Arqueológica Tamtoc, san Luis Potosi)

[mcdonalddraws]

Nada como #TAMTOC 😍 (en Zona Arqueológica Tamtoc, san Luis Potosi)

[brauliocarro]

Fósil de Megaterio #hdrstyles_gf Zona Arqueológica de #Tamtoc (en Zona Arqueologica Tamtoc)

[mirekulous]

TAMTOC, Mexico. Towering above a third spring is the giant slab where the modern Teenek gather for their Xantolo celebration, a hunk of stone twenty-three feet long and fifteen feet high. Hewn from hard sandstone in the Tanchipa Mountains, it was hauled through the jungle, floated twenty miles down river, dragged here and set upright. In 2005, archaeologist Guillermo Ahuja needed a construction crane to re-erect it – it weighs twenty-six tons.

Known prosaically as Monument 32, the slab’smacabre depictions of the skull-masked priestess and two headless women suggest to archaeologists that it was linked to the concept of female fertility and renewal. A dozen jets of blood spray from the women’s necks. The priestess grasps two jets with upraised arms, while two more morph into birds that stretch their liquid wings toward her navel. Below this bloody line is the underworld where the headless figures dwell; they wear skulls for shoes and only their arms emerge to proffer what look like crowns to the sky. The priestess, however, is only an underworld visitor—she stands on skulls to lift her upper body into the land of the living.

[mirekulous]

This exquisite sculpture, which archaeologists dubbed both La Mujer Escarificada (The Scarred Woman) and “Venus,” from TAMTOC archeological site in Mexico. This mysterious civilization thrived alongside the Olmec's over 3,000 years ago, AND the artifacts and stone reliefs unearthed contain symbols never before seen in Mesoamerica...