LINKTV Democracy Now October 16, 2013
Some are shown cradling a supernatural infant part human, part jaguar who may have been their link to the spiritual world. Similar figures appear on sculptound at la venta thtirlg me to be altars. But decades later, a clue to their true function was discovered far from the coast, at the mntainous site of oxtotitclan. Its name means place of caves, which ancient mesoamericans regarded as sacred entrances to the underrld, the mythic realm of ancestral and supernatural srits. A rock painting above the cave mouth shows a ruler wearing a bird mask and feathered costume. His elaborate throne depicts...