%0 Journal Article
%T THE MOCHE BOTANICAL FROG (La rana bot¨¢nica mochica)
%A Donna McClelland £¿
%J Arqueolog¨ªa Iberoamericana
%D 2011
%I Arqueolog¨ªa Iberoamericana
%X Plants and animals with features which identify them as supernaturals characterize the art of the Precolumbian Moche culture of northern Peru. Among these animals is a frog with feline attributes and a consistent association with manioc tubers, stalks, and plants, the Botanical Frog. The Botanical Frog appears to have been patterned on Leptodactylus pentadactylus. It is shown copulating with felines. Fine line painted vessels and ones with low relief decoration show the Botanical Frog performing as part of a ritual involving other animals and cultivated crops, suggesting that the Botanical Frog was associated with agriculture. ESPA OL: El arte de la cultura mochica de la costa norte del Per¨² presenta plantas y animales mostrando rasgos sobrenaturales. Uno de los animales es una rana con elementos felinos y asociada con tub¨¦rculos, ramas y plantas de yuca. La Rana Bot¨¢nica probablemente tiene su origen en Leptodactylus pentadactylus, una rana carn¨ªvora de la selva amaz¨®nica. La Rana Bot¨¢nica copula con felinos y, en vasijas pintadas con l¨ªneas finas o con escenarios representados en bajorrelieve, toma parte en ceremonias involucrando a otros animales y cosechas dom¨¦sticas. Parece ser que la Rana Bot¨¢nica era un ser sobrenatural asociado con la agricultura.
%K peru | moche | agricultural rituals | supernatural animals | frogs | manioc | mochica | ritos agricolas | animales sobrenaturales | ranas | yuca
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