Null Great Colima Warrior

In the style of the Colima culture in Mexico

H. 50 c…

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Great Colima Warrior In the style of the Colima culture in Mexico H. 50 cm L. 27 cm - Thickness 15 cm Broken - glued Solid

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Great Colima Warrior In the style of the Colima culture in Mexico H. 50 cm L. 27 cm - Thickness 15 cm Broken - glued Solid

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Estim. 1 200 - 1 800 EUR

A classic anthropomorphic and zoomorphic statuette, representing a man and an amphibian. This statuette, a classic of Colima art and a fine example of its kind, depicts a seated male figure, with arms and hands resting heavily on his knees and a hallucinated facial expression. When lying down, it clearly and unequivocally represents a batrachian, a frog. It's the theme of individual transformation in ancient shamanic cultures that is addressed here, a theme often over-fantasized. The taking of mushrooms (well known and often depicted in Colima art) or other hallucinogenic psychotropic drugs, obviously sacred and certainly religiously supervised in these ancient times, sends the patient or simple dripper back to his or her innermost nature. Active elements such as psilocybin awaken the ancestral connections that make a human being a full-fledged being of nature. It's more a question of nature reigning within us, and the notion of a "great whole" to which we all belong, than of a so-called shamanic transformation per se. In pre-Hispanic Indian cultures, taking a psychotropic drug was often therapeutic and supervised by a shaman, enabling a psychologically ill person to reconnect with his or her social environment, offering a real rebirth, and thus a transformation could indeed result. The bufotoxins contained in the mucus of certain toads and psilocybin provide access to deep memories, and it's not surprising that the amphibian was chosen as a theme to evoke our origins. Colima, 100 BC to 250 AD, Mexico White speckled green stone, small old erosion on the right foot, very fine old oxidation, and very fine old polished patina. H. 7.8 cm For other fine examples, see pp. 164 and 166 in: Chefs-d'œuvre Inédits Art Précolombien Mexique Guatemala, G. Berjonneau and J.L. Sonnery, Ed. Art 135 1985. Provenance: Jean Roudillon Collection before 1970

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