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BAJKOVA, Verdjina. The Funerary Offerings of Classic Maya Rulers as an Expression of the Cosmos in the Maya Universe. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2015, vol.46, pp.103-118. ISSN 0185-2574.

For the Maya rulers was fundamental the use of funerary attires to express their power after death. The diversity of contexts can range from a religious use, magical, element of worship or simply to express their physical beauty. The materials that were made of was jade and other precious materials, it definitely had a great symbolic meaning among the Maya. Since ancient times have existed metaphorical values of the garments and their position on the human body. The artifacts associated with the hands indicated action; the garments associated with the head along with it acquire outstanding and essential position. Integrating them with the face, they represent identity values, either individually or collectively. These garments are essential in certain public and ceremonial activities, attesting to membership of a social group and even validating the possession of power and sacredness of a person. All this implies that we have a very complex society, so that the elite Classic Maya used symbols of power represented as attires with one cause to be presented as a powerful lineage.

Palabras llave : attire; jade objects; rulers; death; ritual.

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