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As a result, the archeologists named this third individual The Old Lord of Sipán. The third tomb also contained the remains of two other people: a young woman, a likely sacrifice to accompany the Old Lord of Sipán to the next life; and a man with amputated feet, possibly sacrificed to be the Old Lord's guardian in the afterlife.
The Moche Crawling Feline. The Moche Crawling Feline is a specific stirrup spout vessel dating from 100—800 CE. This Moche ceramic effigy is currently in the collection of Larco Museum, in Lima, Peru. It comes from the North Coast of Peru. It represents a zoomorphic character: a lunar dog, or a crawling feline.
Huaca Rajada, also known as Sipán, [1] is a Moche archaeological site in northern Peru in the Lambayeque Valley, that is famous for the tomb of Lord of Sipán (El Señor de Sipán), excavated by Walter Alva and his wife Susana Meneses beginning in 1987. The city of Sipán is dated from 50–700 AD, the same time as the Moche Period. [2]
The first being the continuation that this was in fact showing a deity to the Moche and that the remains of the “Lord of Sipán” were merely clothed in the same costume to resemble the deity. The other being that the scene did not show the deities or pantheon of the Moche, and instead was a literal interpretation of events.
The Moche civilization (Spanish pronunciation:; alternatively, the Moche culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru [1] [2] from about 100 to 800 AD during the Regional Development Epoch. While this issue is the subject of some debate, many scholars contend ...
Aiapaec in a wall in the Huaca de la Luna. Aiapæc or Ai Apaec (from Colonial Mochica aiapæc *[ajapʷɨk] "creator" [1]), [2] Wrinkled Face, [3] the snake-belted figure, [4] or the god of the mountains, [2] [5] [6] is a mythical character identified in Moche iconography, and possibly the main Moche deity.
Kon was known as "The boneless god" because he was light weight, since he lacked bones and meat, despite this, he had a human form. Kon was also represented as a being with a felinic face, although it's believed that he wore feline masks, due to these characteristics, this god is known as "The flying feline", he carried trophy heads and a staff.
He was seen as the son of the Creator god Ptah, as well as the feline goddess (Bast in Lower Egypt or Sekhmet in Upper Egypt) whose nature he shared. Maahes was a deity associated with war, protection, and weather , as well as that of knives , lotuses , and devouring captives .