Las representaciones femeninas, sus diseños corporales y su simbología en el occidente mesoamericano

Abstract

The female ceramic figurines realized in the west Mesoamerica territory, have an important body painted decoration which represent singly or combined geometric designs like spirals, straight, zigzag and wavy lines, circles, concentric circles, triangles, crosses and points are observed like decoration. This order designs transcends by the location in breasts, pelvic and belly area, in addition to this, most of them allude to the sexed body. It is thus the symbolic codes present in the sculptures can be interpreted from the relationship with thoughts of life, where societies are intimately linked with the cycles of nature, with the universe distribution of vertical and horizontal way, which refer archetypal concepts in Mesoamerica. Therefore it is important to consider these representations as possible social and cosmological allegories conceptions of culture that developed in the late formative and half Classic period (BC 200 – AD 400/600), during the tradition of the Tumbas de Tiro in territory comprised by the present states of Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, Michoacan and the south central of Sinaloa.