The figure on the right appears to be a viking ship replete with shields and mast.
Interesting speculation. Frankly it would not surprise me. This civilization grew and expanded about the same time that Mayan civilization was harmed by volcano and drought. Perhaps developed for the same reason as the find in the US state of George that SC posted recently.
Wow, good catch. I went back to the article, but it carefully didn't address the design - which probably means you nailed it.
Around 200 AD? Isn't that what Mormons claim? That Jesus arrived in the New world in a ship?
Interesting, thanks for pointing that out. There’s an anecdote (I couldn’t find it with a cursory web search) about one of the very first paintings on the wall of a tomb in Central America; it was of ships with sails.
I was about to post the same thing. That same image was posted here about some site found in Minnesota(?) or Canada a few years ago.
On the other hand, it looks like a southwestern avanyu, the water serpent; or a southeastern uktena, a water serpent or dragon that is the yang to thunder bird’s yin; or it could be akin to the “underwater panther” of eastern indians, the part bird/deer/wildcat/snake/human piasas of the midwest which Indians apparently used to warn dugout river traffic of nearby whirlpools on the Mississippi, or the amphibaemas the Spiro mounds people of Oklahoma carved on their conch shell cups which were sometimes depicted as two snakelike creatures intertwined in a kind of figure 8 knot ; they usually had big elaborate tongues. There’s about as much resemblance to a viking ship as there is to a Chinese dragon boat. Seems that the dragon motif is an independent and widespread thing that in people living wherever there is turbulent water.
You are absolutely CORRECT!!
However; the figure on the LEFT has what looks like a golden rooster on the right side of it.
Replete with pointy teeth!
You are absolutely CORRECT!!
However; the figure on the LEFT has what looks like a golden rooster on the right side of it.
Replete with pointy teeth!
