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Mesoamerica and dating to the
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The Monte Alto article says some of the potbellies are magnetic, and that there is evidence that the sculpturers were aware of this. 151.197.63.72 ( talk) 03:44, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
I'll be properly reviewing the article later this evening, but first impressions are good. Nev1 ( talk) 18:25, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I don't have much to say about the article because it's in very good shape.
Do the sources have any suggestions on why some of the sculptures may have been left headless? It's mentioned in the description section that some may have been left deliberately headless, and this may be worth adding a sentence or two on if possible. Once this is answered one way or another, the article easily passes the GA criteria. I only made a handful of edits, but you'll want to check I didn't inadvertently change the meaning of anything. Nev1 ( talk) 19:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Even more like with the were-jaguar, the potbelly sculpture with their round body may stand for (more or less inflated) antropomorphic toads (man-toad-hybrids) symbolizing the shamanic practice of toad_licking or other means of consuming toad venoms like bufotenine as a halucinogenic. Toads also had a religious meaning in Olmec culture.
The Olmec tribes created images of a toad god of rebirth, eating its own skin. It is reborn by consuming itself, caught in a cycle of death and rebirth, like people, and like the natural world itself.
92.223.41.208 ( talk) 01:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
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October 8, 2009. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that
potbelly sculpture is a crude non-
Maya sculptural style distributed along the
Pacific slope of southern
Mesoamerica and dating to the
Preclassic Period? |
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The Monte Alto article says some of the potbellies are magnetic, and that there is evidence that the sculpturers were aware of this. 151.197.63.72 ( talk) 03:44, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
I'll be properly reviewing the article later this evening, but first impressions are good. Nev1 ( talk) 18:25, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I don't have much to say about the article because it's in very good shape.
Do the sources have any suggestions on why some of the sculptures may have been left headless? It's mentioned in the description section that some may have been left deliberately headless, and this may be worth adding a sentence or two on if possible. Once this is answered one way or another, the article easily passes the GA criteria. I only made a handful of edits, but you'll want to check I didn't inadvertently change the meaning of anything. Nev1 ( talk) 19:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Even more like with the were-jaguar, the potbelly sculpture with their round body may stand for (more or less inflated) antropomorphic toads (man-toad-hybrids) symbolizing the shamanic practice of toad_licking or other means of consuming toad venoms like bufotenine as a halucinogenic. Toads also had a religious meaning in Olmec culture.
The Olmec tribes created images of a toad god of rebirth, eating its own skin. It is reborn by consuming itself, caught in a cycle of death and rebirth, like people, and like the natural world itself.
92.223.41.208 ( talk) 01:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)