hands, Teotihuacan, gestures, Flat-Two-Dimensional Knot (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Baquedano. Tessa Robinson.

Teotihuacan was the painted city. A key iconographic motif in the murals of residential compounds, such as Tetitla, is the Great Goddess, often shown in the act of hand-scattering. A variety of substances such as grain, liquids, and precious, green stones are pictured falling from the Goddess' open palm. The extensive corpus of representations of the goddess' hand-scattering identifies the hand, and in particular the female hand, as a locus for divinity. The suggestion that the agency of the...