Line of Research:
Lady of Masaya
Script: Guillermo V. Jiménez
Research: Myrna Báez, Guillermo V. Jiménez
No decisions were made without her consent. She was not a pyramid woman. Her thing was volcanoes. A dignitary that no cacique could interrupt, they had to wait for their turn. They brought her offerings that would pile up and break, and dishes of the highest local cuisine.
Ceramic from the archaeological collection of the Museum of Jade and Pre-Columbian Culture of the National Insurance Institute. Collections of the Archaeological Heritage of Costa Rica.
Such was her knowledge, insight and esteem that she had the last word in the assembly or monéxico, as they called it in the Chorotega language, with the principal lords. This assembly was held in the plaza inside the main crater of the Masaya Volcano. She was a person of knowledge about what mattered to them: weather, politics, economics, crops, rainy times, resources.
When she became aware of the Spanish invasion, she refused to continue receiving the caciques, she told them that the Christians were bad and that until they left and expelled from the land, she did not want to see them as she used to.
One of the main characteristics of the Lady of Masaya was her teeth filed to look like a dog, and her non-negotiable dignity. A Governor.
Archaeological example of dental modification to an individual from the Tamtoc archaeological site, San Luis Potosí, with the intention of looking like a canid. In representations this practice is shown in characters that have been interpreted as important and knowledgeable in the pre-Hispanic societies of Mesoamerica and Greater Nicoya.
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