EditorialLintel, from a series illustrating the accession rituals of the ruler Lord Bird. One of his wives conjures a vision of an ancestor who emerges from the mouth of a serpent coiled through a beaded blood scroll.770 CE Limestone,69.2 x 76.2 cm, Temple 21, ...
EditorialLintel 25. Lady K'ab'al Xook. Lady Xook is in the hallucinatory stage of the bloodletting ritual. She conjures before her a vision of a Teotihuacan serpent. This lintel is one of a series of three panels from Structure 23 at Yaxchilan. Limestone, 725-7...
EditorialA view down the Channel Gardens toward the skating rink and its famous bronze sculpture of Prometheus by Paul Manship, in New York, April 11, 2020. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialLintel, from a series illustrating the accession rituals of the ruler Lord Bird. One of his wives conjures a vision of an ancestor who emerges from the mouth of a serpent coiled through a beaded blood scroll.770 CE Limestone,69.2 x 76.2 cm, Temple 21, ...