Raimondi's wake is a stony monolith or sculpture in parallelephald form, with one of his sides decorated in high relief, representing a mythical being. It belongs to the Chavín culture of the Precaca era. Discovered in Chavín de Huantar, he was baptized as Raimondi's Estela in homage to the Naturalista and Italian Geographer Antonio Raimondi, who boosted the transfer of him to Lima for the study and conservation of him. This monolith reflects the artistic style of Chavín culture that was developed especially in Huari province, and that was one of the main religious and cultural centers of the Western Hemisphere. It was the first Chavin style object that became known. It is a granite slab of 1.98 m high by 74 cm wide and 17 cm thick, which has carved in one of its faces to the representation of the main divinity of Chavines at the time of the new temple. The character represented corresponds to an anthropomorphic divinity felixed standing, front view, with open arms, holding a kind of barges in each hand. His hands and feet end up in claws. The figure resembles the god wiracocha portrayed at the door of the Tiahuanacian culture as it also holds two rods, caves or canes. Raimondi Estela, Raimondi Estela
Raimondi's wake is a stony monolith or sculpture in parallelephald form, with one of his sides decorated in high relief, representing a mythical being. It belongs to the Chavín culture of the Precaca era. Discovered in Chavín de Huantar, he was baptized as Raimondi's Estela in homage to the Naturalista and Italian Geographer Antonio Raimondi, who boosted the transfer of him to Lima for the study and conservation of him. This monolith reflects the artistic style of Chavín culture that was developed especially in Huari province, and that was one of the main religious and cultural centers of the Western Hemisphere. It was the first Chavin style object that became known. It is a granite slab of 1.98 m high by 74 cm wide and 17 cm thick, which has carved in one of its faces to the representation of the main divinity of Chavines at the time of the new temple. The character represented corresponds to an anthropomorphic divinity felixed standing, front view, with open arms, holding a kind of barges in each hand. His hands and feet end up in claws. The figure resembles the god wiracocha portrayed at the door of the Tiahuanacian culture as it also holds two rods, caves or canes. Raimondi Estela, Raimondi Estela
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