Sexual union between Ai Apaec and Pachamama
Room 6, Vitrine 36
• In the world of the ancestors, Mother Earth is inseminated by male power, symbolized in the form of the mythological hero Ai Apaec, who displays his feline fangs and wears a serpent belt. For her part, the archetypal woman who represents Mother Earth wears a tunic and styles her hair in braids.
• This ancestral union occurs in order to ensure the rebirth of the sun, and the renewal of the life of the community.
• In this scene, reproductive sexual union between men and women in this world is presaged by the original ancestral union.
• Moche culture, Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD), ML004359.
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