Propitiation of the ancestors
Room 5, Vitrine 43
• The male and female inhabitants of the underworld participate in a range of sexual activities, including mutual masturbation and kissing. They are aroused in order to demonstrate their potency and to emit the semen which symbolically fertilizes the earth from the underworld. Here a woman is also shown being stimulated by her male partner.
• Moche culture, Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD), ML004316, ML004318, ML004334, ML004345.
ML004334