Head of an aged being. Maya civilization, El Mirador, Guatemala, ca. 7th-9th c. Stucco. Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala [3000×4000] [OC]

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[Heads of aged beings

Casa del Coral, El Mirador, Guatemala, 7th-9th century

Stucco

Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes de Guatemala

Artists displayed great imagination in the creation of grotesque creatures. These finely modeled heads with luxurious blue paint range from the nearly human to the decidedly fantastic. Their wrinkled faces and toothless mouths evoke old age, in a departure from standard, dignified representations of respected elders and aged gods. Surely perceived as strange, perhaps even amusing, these heads belong to the realm of the wondrous and sometimes fearsome supernatural beings that populated Maya views of the world.]

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“aged being”. That’s not how you call granny, kid.