Jeanette Favrot Peterson discusses the status of the peccary; a "Great White Peccary" and a "Great White Tapir" are among the oldest creator Gods of the Maya.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Jeanette Favrot Peterson Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Secondary
- Reference
Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Precolumbian Flora and Fauna: Continuity of Plant and Animal Times in Mesoamerican Art (La Jolla, CA: Mingei Intl Museum of World Folk Art, 1990), 91
- Scribe/Publisher
- Mingei Intl Museum of World Folk Art
- People
- Jeanette Favrot Peterson
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
PECCARY—JABALÍ coyamti; chitam ac
Often paired with the tapir, the peccary also has a flexible snout and pointed hoofs. In the Popol Vuh, “Great White Peccary” and “Great White Tapir” are coupled as the oldest creator gods. Two species of these nomadic, wide-ranging animals are still fairly abundant, the Collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu) and the White-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari). Images of the peccary are frequent in Maya art (Fig. 75), sometimes ridden by god D or Itzamna, an underworld deity.
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