March
27
/ 2021
Archaeologists have identified a 3,200-year-old ceremonial center in Peru’s northern Virú province. The site has been partially destroyed and is still waiting full excavations, but they’ve already found a colorful mural of a knife-wielding spider god created by a pre-Columbian culture. The spider god mural was created with shades of ocher, yellow, gray, and white. Experts believe it was made by Cupisnique artists at one of their ancient adobe temples to represent a water and fertility deity. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"84677","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"448","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] The colorful mural of a knife-wielding spider god. ( ANDINA ) Who were the Mysterious Cupisnique People? From roughly 1500 BC-200 BC, the pre-Columbian Cupisnique culture lived in the Jequetepeque Valley. Their influence has been found at sites such as Caballo Muerto
