Hans_lune Wrote:
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> [ecoturismoesoterico.files.wordpress.com].
> Early Classic (250 AD – 600 AD)
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> Does anyone know what the glyph(s) below his chin
> in the circle say? Or is it just ornamentation?

I'm afraid I can't answer this question!

However, I found some papers that might provide some background information on the general subject of butterfly warriors:

Flower Mountain: Concepts of Life, Beauty, and Paradise among the Classic Maya
Karl A. Taube
RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, No. 45 (Spring, 2004), pp. 69-98 - [www.jstor.org]

BERLO, JANET C.1983 The Warrior and the Butterfly: Central Mexican Ideologies of Sacred Warfare and Teotihuacan Ico
-nography.
Text and Image in Pre-Columbian Art: Essays on the Interrelationship of the Verbal and Visual Arts,
edited by Janet C. Berlo, pp. 79-117. BAR International Series 180. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

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