HUACAS DEL SOL Y LA LUNA
La Cultura Moche, también conocida como Mochica, ha dejado numerosas muestras de cerámica realista. En estas se representan animales, rostros humanos, y cada aspecto de la vida diaria de ese tiempo. La representación es increíblemente real, como si estuviera viva.
Supposedly, Pottery was part of Mochica funerary practices – it was used to immortalize the face of the deceased, and due to that the portraylals often carry very personal features, e.g. disfigurement, birthmarks or simply old age. The Moche Culture is said to have existed around 9 centuries (from 100 BC to 800 AD) in the North of Peru.
Supposedly, Pottery was part of Mochica funerary practices – it was used to immortalize the face of the deceased, and due to that the portraylals often carry very personal features, e.g. disfigurement, birthmarks or simply old age. The Moche Culture is said to have existed around 9 centuries (from 100 BC to 800 AD) in the North of Peru.
The Huaca de la Luna served primarily a ceremonial and religious function, though it contains burials as well. Today the Huaca de la Luna is colored the soft brown of its adobe brickwork. At the time of construction, it was decorated in registers of murals which were painted in black, bright red, sky blue, white, and yellow. The sun and weather has since utterly faded these murals away. Inside the Huaca are other murals created in earlier phases of construction. Many of these depict a deity now known as Ayapec. Ayapec is a pre-Quechua word translating as all knowing. "Wrinkle-Face" is the name given to another deity by the later Inca because of the deity's appearance.
The Huaca del Sol was composed of four main levels. The structure was expanded and rebuilt by different rulers over the course of time. It is believed to have originally been about 50 meters in height and 340m. by 160 m. at the base. Located at the center of the Moche capital city, the temple appears to have been used for ritual, ceremonial activities and as a royal residence and burial chambers. Archaeological evidence attests to these functions.
During the Spanish occupation of Peru in the early 17th century, colonists redirected the waters of the Moche River to run past the base of the Huaca del Sol in order to facilitate the looting of gold artifacts from the temple. The operation of the hydraulic mine greatly damaged the Huaca del Sol. In total, approximately two-thirds of the structure has been lost to erosion and such looting. The remaining structure stands at a height of 41 meters (135 feet).
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