Hidden 500-Year-Old Relics Unearthed by Two Adventurous Spelunkers in Remote Mexican Cave—What Secrets Do They Hold?
“For pre-Hispanic cultures, caves were sacred places, associated with the underworld and considered the womb of the Earth,” INAH archaeologist Miguel Pérez Negrete explained. “There is a symbolic integration at the site, since, according to Mesoamerican myth, Quetzalcoatl was a deity who extracted, from the depths of the planet, the corn and bones from which humanity was formed and, through their sacrifice, gave rise to life, the knowledge of agriculture, and fertility.”
However, little is known about the Tlacotepehua culture, which vanished during the Spanish occupation. As such, the objects found in Tlayócoc Cave are especially significant, and sheds rare light on this mysterious civilization.
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