Making sense of a Holy Trinity: the Dioses Narigudos of Classic period Central Veracruz

Summary

Dioses Narigudos are a series of ceramic figurines that are extremely frequent during the Classic period in a very restricted area of South Central Veracruz. They occur generally in ritual deposits under floors of major and minor buildings, combining female and male representations of different hierarchy. Current interpretations relate them to a solar deity or a water deity, none of which identifications apply to all three main figurine types. Their attributes and the contexts in which they are found would suggest they are used not only to sacralize the space but also the persons who inhabit the built spaces under which they are placed. This leads me to relate them to a deity similar to the later Postclassic Nahua Tlaltecuhtli; to argument this I use the model of numbered ritual deposit proposed by Dehouve for the investiture of persons of authority, and the female/male elements related to the Classic Gulf Coast Water/Earth Mountain supreme being as analyzed by Koontz and Wyllie.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 18879