A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach.

2019年1月26日 · A Chac Mool is a very specific type of Mesoamerican statue associated with ancient cultures such as the Aztecs and Maya. The statues, made of different types of stone, depict a reclined man holding a tray or bowl on his belly or chest.

2023年9月11日 · The Chaac Mool is one of the most enduring and well-known icons of México’s ancient past. One of the best preserved Chaac Mools ever discovered is now on display at México City’s Museum of History and Anthropology.

2021年5月22日 · Archaeology confirms that twelve chacmools have been discovered at the Toltec city of Tula, known for its famous Atlantean Statues, the massive stone sculptures of warriors, the "Atlantes" that still hold a mystery: how the figures were carved and …

Sculptures of this type, featuring a reclining male figure holding a bowl on his torso, were given the invented name Chac Mool by nineteenth-century explorers during an archaeological expedition to Chichen Itza. The figure is adorned with a headdress, earflares, bracelets, and anklets, all likely depicted as if they were made of jade.

Entre los rasgos distintivos de Chichén Itzá se encuentra la integración de esculturas al diseño arquitectónico, en especial de los llamados Chac Mool.

…plaster cast of a limestone Chac Mool—a Mayan representation of the rain spirit, depicted as a male reclining figure with its knees drawn up together, its staring head at a right angle to its body, and its hands holding on its stomach a flat dish for sacrifices.

Chacmools are found in Central Mexico and Yucata'n with the greatest number concentrated at the archaeological sites of Tula, Hidalgo, and Chiche'n Itza', Yucata'n. A chacmool excavated from the Aztec Templo Mayor in Mexico City in the early 1980s was found fully polychromed.

Descubre qué es Chac Mool, el enigmático dios maya, y su fascinante historia en la cultura mexica. ¡Sumérgete en su significado!

2019年9月20日 · Chacmools have been discovered in El Salvador, Guatamala, and throughout Central Mexico and the Yucatán. The Chacmool pictured here was taken at Cenote Zaci in the center of the town of Valladolid. What Did the Equinox and Solstice Signify to the Maya?