Saturday, February 25, 2006

ceiba's prehispanic meaning



This tree's name is Ceiba, it is a really tall tree.... on prehispanic times the ceiba had a important meaning, the natives thought that ceiba was the connection between the sky, the earth and the underworld also represents the 4 cardinal points. So they represented it on their ceramics and on incense burners as the one you can see on the photo.

3 comments:

DiaKL said...

wow! I have never seen a tree like this!! Cool spikes, maybe the tree uses them as defence mechanism? :)

Anonymous said...

it looks painful:p

Anonymous said...

Very pretty site! Keep working. thnx!
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