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Digital Object 2795
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The flying squid. The supernatural world of the Coclé
Introduction: The cocle, like so many other unwritten peoples, expressed the identities and qualities of the gods who ruled their universe through a metaphorical language inspired by the nature that surrounded them. Within the funerary offerings that accompanied the characters that rested in the tombs investigated in El Caño, the images of the gold discoidal pectorals are the ones that most inform about what these qualities would be: jaguars, eagles and crocodiles express ferocity and speed; seahorses, of transformation and mimicry; birds, hummingbirds, opossums and bats, flight and rebirth, and deer, spiders and lobsters evoke fertility and regeneration. …
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Publications / Materials
Publications and reports browsing
Author:
 
Mercedes Guinea Bueno
Title / reference:
 
The flying squid. The supernatural world of the Coclé in Golden Warriors. The lords of Río Grande in Panama. Pg. 126-155. Julia Mayo, Juan Carles (ed.) Editorial Caribe. Republic of Panama 2015.
Co-authors / Institution:
 
Fundación el Caño and Universidad Complutense
Materials / theme:
 
Iconography, funerary furnishings, death and sacrifice
Publication category:
 
Chapter book
Digital Object 2795
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