Mayan Art T-Shirt -- Vision Serpent of Yaxchilan

100% cotton Hanes best T-shirt in natural tan color with dark burgundy image (see detail above for accurate color). High quality silkscreen with exquisite design details. Comes with descriptive card which gives more information about the original relief.

This image is a detail from Lintel 15 at the rainforest ruins of Yaxchilán. Both Yaxchilán and nearby Bonampak have numerous images depicting ceremonies wherein a Vision Serpent is being invoked by Maya royalty. In the Classic period of the ancient Maya the royalty were required to do bloodletting ceremonies to invoke particular ancestors who could be of aid and a source of guidance. To quote Linda Schele and David Friedel in A Forest of Kings, ¨The aim of these great cathartic rituals was the vision quest, the opening of a portal into the Otherworld through which gods and the ancestors could be enticed so that the beings of this world could commune with them.¨

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