The chacmool form of sculpture first appeared around the 9th century AD in the Valley of Mexico and the northern Yucatán Peninsula. This album depicts numerous examples of Maya-Toltec carvings, murals, and architecture, taken by Octavio Medellin at both the Chichen Itza and Uxmal archeological sites. Their symbolism placed them on the frontier between the physical and supernatural realms, as intermediaries with the gods. This photograph is from the album, ''Maya-Toltec Temples and Carvings, 1938'', which documents the 1938 trip to Mexico made by Octavio Medellin and his family. Chacmools were often associated with sacrificial stones or thrones. Aztec chacmools bore water imagery and were associated with Tlaloc, the rain god. These figures possibly symbolised slain warriors carrying offerings to the gods the bowl upon the. It's important that the statue's name 'Chac Mool' should not be confused with Chac, one of the foremost gods of Mayan mythology, who originally was related to rain, storm, and thunder. A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach. In an Aztec example the receptacle is a cuauhxicalli (a stone bowl to receive sacrificed human hearts). According to the Maya, 'chac-mool' means 'the paw swift like thunder' (or 'Thunderous Paw'), but the simple name 'chac mool' has been widely adopted by researchers. These figures possibly symbolised slain warriors carrying offerings to the gods the bowl upon the chest was used to hold sacrificial offerings, including pulque, tamales, tortillas, tobacco, turkeys, feathers and incense. Chac Mool is the term used to refer to a particular form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach.
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