Room E1, Vitrine E7
Ceramic
Peruvian Northern Coast
Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD)
ML004237, ML004271, ML004273
The union of an ancestral hero with a woman symbolizes the power of the earth (Pachamama) to produce life from the underworld, deep below the surface. Here Mother Earth is inseminated, penetrated, sown and irrigated by her male counterpart.
In this scene, reproductive union between men and women is symbolized by a mythological ancestral union.