Royal Statues., Statt Gqds, and.the Re\ig\ous \deo\ogy
of the Prehistoric State of Tiwanaku
Krzysztof Makowski
H anula
Translated by Rose Vekony
In the archaeology of the Central Andes, it is widelv are found in dit-terent combinations in üe plumes of
believed that only one male staff god presided over the halos as rr-ell as in the bodv painting, belrs, rearthe Andean pantheon, at least since Chavín
times.
The presumed diffusion of the motifs seen or1
the Gateway of the $u¡-¡hess of the staiT god
and his winged ¿¡¡s¡d2¡15-\ñ-as the basis for üis
notion and has sustained it to this dai'. As I hope
to demonstrate, however, our current knov'ledge
of pre-Hispanic Tiwanaku iconographli including
its antecedents in the l\tiddle and Late Formative
Periods, no longer supports this hypothesis. The
representational conventions for frontal and profile
figures, with staffs and with rayed halos around their
faces, were employed to portrav gre t repertoire
^
of deities in their various hierarchical relations. Tiwanaku conr.'entions can be compared to those of
iike
the saints in thc¡se traditions, the most important
Tiwanaku deiues were represented frontally, with
paleo-Christian or Byzantine iconography Much
tracks, and scepters. These designs appear separateh-,
in texrile and ceramics, and
as independent motits,
studring üem in those contests rer-eals the sarious
of the frontallv portrar-ed supernatural be-
identities
ings. The same is t¡ue for the prohle deities, rvhich
Dorothy Menzel (1,964, 197T compares to angels.
The reliefs on rhe Gatewal. of üe Sun represent
only a small percentage
of
the supernatural beings
that formed the rich and varied Tiwanaku pantheon.
The Staff God Theme Revisited
Among the images that make up the figurative legacv
of the pre-Hispanic Andes, the stulptural decoration
of Tiwanaku's Gatewal, of the Sun (fig. 1) is perhaps
the most popular and widely known. Drawings and
photographs of it began to circulate in the second
half of the nineteenth century, thanks to the publihalos surrounding their faces, and they all resembled cations of Chades Wiener (1880), Ephraim Squier
one another. Nonetheless, iust as withimages of St. (1877), and Alphons Stribel and N{ax Uhle (1892).
Peter, St. John, or St. Mattherr,; the identiw of each From the studies of Uhle through üose of Doro-
secpower
of the personage or to relevant episodes in the individual'.s story. In Tiwanaku reliefs, glrphlilie signs
can be discerned by comparative studv
of
the
ondary details that allude to the character or
fig
Gatetal of the
Sun. a. Irront vieui b. Back vies.i (?hotos: D.
thy X{enzel and up to the present dar; comparisons
betrveen the Gateuar
designs
of
of üe
Sun's
motitt and the
cenual lndean ceramics har-e serr-ed
first to define the sn le horizon and later to support
(iiannoni)
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at the surface
of a Late
Intermediate Peri,-c
;::--
etery in the Pativilca Valle,v with some hrpc,-.:-.-:-lpreceramic graves. The two dates corresponi
:, r.
third miliennium B.C. Jonathan Haas and \\ ::-::= Creamer Q004) consider the images in the p::-.-'
on the outet surface of the gourds to be rhe c,-c;.:
figutative expression of the staff gods, but -,::.:
interpretation is not very convincing. Instead :::-are probablv late Middle Horizon or Late Ilr-:mediate Period engravings on preceramic gouri.The basis for the presumed existence
of
a sin.---.
main deiq; and for the unguestionable spread ,-,:
motifs inspired by Tiwanaku iconographr- ¡fi¡erghout the Centtal Andes in the Middle Horizon
2,
.nvas
(and remains to this da1) the thesis
1
anc
of a reij-
gious ideology shared by two independent highlanC
states (see I{olata 1993b; Cook 2001; Isbell2001b
.
This argument also supports the interpretation of
Ifari iconographv's wide geographic drstribution
a n;raterial expression
of the emergence
as
and rapid
of an empire (Lumbreras 1974; \\'illiams
2001,, 59) that owed its success to, among other
expansion
oi
Fig. 2. Gates,al
noni)
the Sun, central hgure. (Photo: D. Gian-
things, a religious doctrine possessing great po\\-ers
of proselr.tization
speculation on the relarions bers'een Tirvanaku and
(Menz el 19 64, 1977 ; Cook 1983:
Isbell and Cook 1987). It should be noted, however,
\\hri (Isbell and IIcEs'an
1991). Scholars and re-
that Nlenzelt hypothesis (1964,1977) was based on
seatchers have quite naruralh'come ro consider the
three implicit suppositions that have now lost favor.
eústence
of
the raved staff god one
of
the axioms
The 6rst is the assumption that contact between the
of Andean archaeologli According to the hlpothesis
that has gained wide acceptance in academic circles
(Isbell and I{nobloch 2006), the image of a deiq'
Titicaca and Ayacucho basins took place during the
with two scepters, one in each hand, and a full-frontal
Sanginés 1969; see also Cook 1994,323, table 3),
time when the Tiwanaku st)4e was fully consolidated
and mature: the Tiwanaku
IV
phase (e.g., Ponce
posture (ñg.2) is thought to have been created in
as defined by the sti,üstic sequence established bv
the Northern Sierra in the Chavín context (R.orve
1971), and to have spread from there toward the
Wendell Benn ett (1934).In accordance with this first
Titicaca Basin as a central componenr
doctrine. This icon sas deemed
characte¡istics
of
a
of
reügious
celesdal dein-rrith
a supreme god, larer comparable
to \¡iracocha rn the colonial texts (Demarest 1981).
Recendr- the idea
of a hrpothetical pan-Andean
diffusion of the staff god has been bolstered
arguments stemming
fragments
of
supposition, it rvas also thought that the diversity
of
supernatural beings and mvthical themes that characteúzed the religion
calh- represented
of the altiplano was syntheti-
in the friezes of the Gateway of
the Sun. Finall¡ it was assumed that the decoration
of the Gateway constituted
a canonical model that
br-
nes'
u'as faithfully irnitated, or reproduced with certain
tiom the C-14 dating of
nr-o
modifications,
decorated gourds that rvere collected
rvood, 2¡d
in differe¡¡ msdi¿-5tone, textile,
ss1¿¡¡is-foth in the heart of Tiwanaku
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aqt
3o a/rs eqt isuonce¡oc at¿¡r¡d uror-l stuaru¡¿8 pr-u
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ar{I'?rvtrnd ot ueqt n>ivuv,4trl o} rosop
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2004, 42, ñg. 2.22) is decorated with two ral'ed faces rures-are inverted. The faces with rayed cro\\,::s.
and human heads in profile reminiscent of those insteadof occupyingasubordinatepositionvis-i-r-.
in Conchopata ceramics (Isbell 2001a, fig. 16). The the frontal staff god-in the Gateway of the Su::
other, the "Gateway Tunic" foung-Sánchez 2004, thev are at his feet, within the supposed calenci::
47, frg' 2.26) ís even more spectacular: nvo tiontal f¡1s2s-2¡s found in the central, privileged place rrnc
faces, each with a crown of tu-enn-fbur plumes, are larger than the other figures; in aclclition, e,rci:
are positioned above a sn'lized stepped platfbrm one of them is accompanied bv rwo winged attcn-
animals
in profile. The faces resemble one of- the rariants
of this same motif in the calendar iÁeze on the
Gatelvav of the Sun (fig. 14c) and, et'en more, one
and accompanied bv two fantastic rvinged
of
the ¡r,-o iaces positioned abor-e stepped piatfbrms
dants in profile. At the same time, the frontai st¿r
god----or rather several staff gods, to judge tion:
the varietv
of
details and attribures-replaces th.
customarv procession of winged creatures in prohl..
The discoverl'of snuff trays and bone rubes
statT fiom San Pedro de Atacama offers equallv important
their clues concerning the evolution of the Tirvanaku
hands walli toward each of the rayed faces. Thev are str4e (lorres 1987 ,2002). Both the C-14 dates and
shown in frontal position, but their feet indicate the the stylistic variability of these implements, used rc¡
direction of their movement. Their crowns, as well as inhale the powder of Anadenanthera colabrina (Torres
the objects they hold in their hands like staffs, are not
et al. 1991), indicate that their users were in close
in the Bennett monolith (figs. 4b, 6). Eighteen
gods with visible wings and rvith n'u-o staffs in
identical.Young-Sánche2Q004,49,frg.2.27a,b)em-
of
contact with the Tiwanaku central zone from the
üth stepped
Late Formative Period. Several of these objects
Cuzco feature designs and figures that may be antecedenrs
region that is now in the collection of the Bedin to those reproduced in the friezes of the Garervav
State N{useums. Among the different shapes of
of the Sun and in the Ponce and Bennett monoliths.
plumes that form the crowns of the staff gods, one Constantino Torres (1987, 2002) has convincinglr'
remarkablerariantimitatesacacnrs. Inseveralcases shown that these wcre not imitations of motifs
the straight scepters, as well as those in the form of
knorvn from stone sculpture but rather were original
a serpentine belt, are replaced by darts and plants. creations informed b), a good knowledge of fipprraThe central Part, near the opening of the tunic, tive conventions and details. Tiv,anaku figuratir-e
phasizes the presence
the headdress
plumes, known from an eadier statue from the
which is bipartite or quadripartite in composition, artifacts (figs. 3a--c) coexist in common gravesires
is filled with stylized architectonic elements, among with objects thatwere produced in stvles unrelated to
which four gateways stand out. Young-Sánchez Tiwanaku (suchasTorres 1987,pIs. 100-101, 104-7,
believes that the weavers reproduced a ceremonial 111,113-15, 117) or that mix elements of several
space similar to that of the Akapana or Kalasasaya, styles, including that of ú:Le altiplana (lorres 1987, pls.
with statues of ancestors in the middle of sunken 98,99,120,132-133).Thereisnoshortageof novel
courtvards. If we compare the composition of the designs created v¡ith fiJl knowledge of the iconogtunic with the reüefs of the Gateway of the Sun or
raphy and rules of Tiwanaku composition (frontal
the Bennett monolith, it becomes clear that in this divinity in Torres 1,987, pl. 77; anthropomorphic
exceptional textile the relations between people figure in profile w'ith its head pointed upward, pls. 79,
essential
motif--nameh',
and elements that are normalh'considered
parts
of
the canonical Tinanaku
80, 82; feline decapitator in profile, pl. 83; fantastic
bird, pl. 84; condor, pl. 96; camelid, pl. 87; frontal
"the staff god theme" (Ifenzel 1964,1.968a,b;Cook faces, pls. 90,97; human decapitaror, pl. 91; feline
1987; Cook 2004,14649), the s,'inged aftendants, decapitatoq pL. 92; rampant felines, pl. 95); others
and the crowned sunlike faces atop stepped
struc-
possibly inspired by motifs known from the monu-
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eq] w se .prJeruzr Sulduudtuorrú eq] tnoqtt.\\ puü
'pap sl
suorsueurrp ee¡{r ur patuasa,rdar uaq¡A, ue^E
pr1et¡¡?r patef,Rsatuop E r{lrg.{\
.raq
ul elpurds a8:q
B sreaq aqs
ol ado¡
E
puu
'stuzld ¡o
sputr{
'suodea.¡l
.s¡ers Surploq
Jo p€elsut Íasod pruory ;aq st
Lil
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spo8
'uone¡dsut
-+o
aJ'Inos B
S¿ Pa^JaS
e^tq Seull}atuos
-ivur urpaur asaqt qloq JI ua^3 .,'sqodor]aur ,,oua¡{tl¡o
ar{l ur spllq-+o Jo sluelurz8 eqr uo ;o secrds ltrru
-otuaraJtm{ll.\\s-JeITarl¿lualunuouluouoil¡nPo'¡da-r
ro-l Pe-\Ieluol seuIaql Io slePoul Jo uoDulltlll aldruts
c aru a1-üs n>lúu¿.{\IJ, ut salard eI{}
TI3
l?q}
e1?14)ul
or 3ootd ou slslxe alaql 'uorsnlruor uI '(8L'9L'VL
's1d ''Urur,\¡p pruol¡) lJt elnxel Íq pacuangur sduqlad
srerpo üDS puu Í(¡.,g'88 'slQ -Iello ;o arluus pazqirs i6g
'88 'sld'prlauzl Í9¿
'1d
iürulrrp pruo'r¡) sJaqs] I?luaur
aql pue 'spoo JJels 'sonlels leÁou" 'elnueH rlsitrole|/\
,,nleueMlf lo otels cuolstqoJd otll to Á60¡oep¡ snolollou
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notable detail is the presence of wrngs and a bi¡dt tail,
they run in three rows approaching the ceo¡n[
like those that adotn the profile winged attendants.
figure.
These do not appear either in relief o¡ fabric versions
of the frontal staff god flgures, perhaps because
their portrayal relies on the three-dimensionaliw
of
freestanding sculpture. Indeed, the u,.ings and tail
cannot be seen in frontal view; onlv rvhen the statue
is rotated do they become apparent. Except for this
one case, Pucara reliefs and textiles represent the face
of
the staff god, rvith its characteristic halo
of
rays
(Chávez 2004), in preference to full-bodv images.
In
sum, the repertoire
of
formative antecedents (Pucara, Siguas, Tiwznaku III, and Qeva) to
Tiwanaku iconographv is surprisinglv rich. It includes conventions for representing human beings
frontally, in profile, running, walking, and flying
(stretched out hodzontalTy, face down), full body
or head onl¡ as well as most of the iconographic
details from which mythic identities were probably
se¡511us¡sd-¡amely, figurative feathers forming
the crown, componeflts
also contains figures
of
of
staffs, and so on. The list
hypothetical "central deity
themes" and "the sacrificer" (Cook 1994,190-205).
Only two of these have parallels in the iconographv
of
the Gatewav
of
the Sun: the principal deiw rep-
tesented in full bodv or as a frontal face and one
the three tlpes
of
of attendants rvith visible wings. The
rest, such as the sacrificer and the anthropomorphic
attendant with a feüne face, are represented only
in reliefs that decorate iintels and garments of the
monoüthic statues of human officiants. What is
even more surprising about this repertoire is that
the varier¡'of images casts doubt on the existence
not only of the "theme of a central deity or staff
god" but also on the existence of a single main deity.
Remember that Xfenzel's hrpothesis was inspired
b,v the relations between the anthropomorphic
figures in üe Gatesav of üe Sun's principaTftieze:
. The central figure is larger than the others; it
is the onlt'one atop a stepped structure; it has
two staffs, one in each hand, and lacks wings.
. The remaining three fantastic beings ate repeated several times, in profrle and with wings;
These characteristics become exceptional ra
light of the formative evidence, and also in corr.id-
of reliefs attributed to the initial phases 'T-rwanaku II! and the eady phase of classical Tis-an*u
eration
I\f
(fiwanaku
, such as the Bennett monoüth. The
formative repertoire includes several staff deidessometimes represented side by side (nameh-, on the
"Gateway Tunic" [Young-Sánchez 2004, ñg. 2-26]
and the Bennett and Pachacamac monoliths [figs. 611cl) and at the same size,
as
blt with clear
diffe¡ences
to the characteristics of the crown, the venical
objects held in the hands, clothing details, and the
stepped structures over which they appear. \\ ings
are not an exclusive attribute
of
figrrres in proñle (as
the Pucara staff god shows), nor is the frontal pose
an exclusive
tritt of
a male staff deity (as the Pucara
female deity proves lChávez 2004,911). Moteor-er,
we know of compositions in relief and in tapestn-
in which several ftontal deities with two staffs form
processions, one beside another (namely, the Gateway Tunic fYoung-Sánchez 2004, f,g.2.26] and the
Pachacamac monolith, which has deities in profrle
but without wings and with two staffs, one in each
hand [fig. 11c]). Finallli in some cases the processions are oriented toward the central figure (figs. 1a,
11c), while
in others they are turned awal' from it
(Bennett monol,ith, frg. 6); there may even be both
directions in the same scene (Ponce monolith, fig. N.
In the context outlined above, the empirical and
theoretical bases for the central role traditionally assigned to the iconography
disappear.
It would
of
the Gateway
of the Sun
seem that the current literature
on this topic still betrays the influence
of romantic
images conjured by nineteenth-century engravings
and photographs: the monolithic gateway, like a Ro-
man triumphal arch, emerges alone amid the ruins
of
the great plaza,wlich is almost completeiy buried
bv earth and rubble. The reüefs stand out against
the Andean sk¡ the sole and final testimony of a
lost civilization that flourished in such an apparendy
hostile environment, an almost implausible nodon
'(ruouuur'¡ 'q :soroq¿)
'q
'.^l3r
'¿
'glqouou¡
nauuag ';.'31¡
luorc
Il¿q Jo Ir¿tac
'iu.r.rz lsapr.t 3qt tuqt ua.ogs sur{ rul¿u¿.ANII Jo sulnr
aqt ]ú pu¿ urnasnur alrs eqt ur pa,rraserd erntdlnrs
_1o
sadb Jeqto qtl.lc' sf¿.¡o.alu8 ar{l Jo uosuedwo3
orlllv le/tou ¡o /(qder6ouocl or.ll
'tr sessyd¡ns fldure ql[ouow ]teuueg Wt-iooJ-tvz
eq¡ '-(qdy#ouof,r slr Jo surJet w xaiduroc ]soru eql
.rou rse8ryl erp rer{treu sr uns aq} Jo ,{y,natzg aql
t¿qr s.{\ogs satnldprs f,rql[ouou 3ul.'u¡¡ns Jo erlo]
-radar aqr qrr-t uosuydiuor aldtuls 1¡'sacuds uedo ul
pelqwassr sapn]Dlnru rearS eql or ruatuor snor8r¡ar
tuq¡odu¡Sulie¡uo¡
ueeq e Eq tou PInoJ
roJ
runrpeurlvnsl
E s€
pepuetrn
pu¿.4NopEqs uI ueaq e^¿q PInO.^A
'tuooJ Pere^or E
Jarler eql uaqt 'esyc arp s¿,4d, ]vq] JI
ro p.ruihrnoc paoonrod ¿ Jo JolJetrrt eqt ruo4 uees
aq ol tuee{u
s¿,¡¡.
a8urur po8 33urs or{t qtüN
Ilp.4A.
eql
tzqr 'purur dru or ,{ldun'l¡¿d ¡addn eqt uI s}uauela
8un¡oddns pur Suqcauuor Jo uorlrtrol eqt sE IIa.¡N
sv'sazau3r snourq eqr arrsoddo eprs aqr uo sletu{
puu seqrru Jo uonnqrJtslp aql 'saceds pa3ooJ pue
s¡y.ro. Suucnf,tsuof, fqaraqt'sluau¡8as f,Iqr[ououI
reqto qtrr\\'sacard o3a1 ayl'palquressy eq ot tlmq
eJa-$ 'uon¿Jofep Jarler a^?q ol u¡A,oul sd¿,r¡.ale8
o-ru .i¡uo aqt '(1661 v?vzrnl-vpuvq¡ iy7'1d '1 '1o,r
'c¡61 .ilsuuuso¿) uootrn eqt Jo fr.lo.a1yg eq] put
(t Eg) uns er{l ;o Íz.ro,arzg er{t lzqr pat?r}suourap
-i¡Surrulruoc e,vq (q'eZ00Z) rrEN E[e]S puu ua4ord
arrar¿-ueaf '(qtOOZ ¡1eqs1 :g¡1 'et,66l erelo;i) prur
-erÍ¿ nlun¿ ¿wncl ar{l 3o dor eqt ueeq a-tuq ,(uur
'paqrear JOAoU ]r r{f,rqa 'uoBeunsap IvurJ slI'vew
uoDrnJtsuor aql ol trodsu?rl slr Suunp '(e 'Z 'tBA
'BVL 'eg66L Etslo>l Í¿¿g 1 .rernbg) p¡uzrf¿ uuu dv¡1¡
or{t Jo quou 'e,(esvs?Iv>J palptr touna¡d pruorue
-.rar a8ryl E Jo reuJor ]sa.ar{}Jou eqt ur peuopuuqz
su.lo. dumatyg eqt sE u,r\ou¡ etrsepu€ ferS 3o ¡co1q
f,rqlr¡ouour srq] ]Er{t paer8e i¡yraua8 ¡Nou sr tI
'n>I¿u?.¡r\rl jo xaldruoc 3ruolfelrqfJ? eql Jo sa¡¿ds
Fruorualel aq] uI luaunuoru ]uslJodrur ]sou¡ er{l
pareprsuor aq .ra8uol ou u¿r uns aql ;o fe.raaleg
eq]'(ql00Z ¡¡aqs¡) paruerlnroP Ile'^A' ueeq sfe'rqY tou
e,ruq ilareunrJoJun qrrq.4cr'uoEeJolse¡ puu 8ururap
sE ¡a.{\ sE 'suonu¡E3xa ¡o ,{rnluef ? JeUv 'surc1d
uyedorng pu¿ u?rrJeury rza.r8 aqr u13ui,t¡1 esoqr roJ
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.nleue¡ rf ]o olels cuolsrLloJd orll lo Áooloapl snolollou oql pue 'spoc gels 'sonlPls leÁou,, 'elnuBH DlsMoler\l
140 Tiwanaku: Papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
of compositional .nariants ancl ttpes of figures- the ceremonial garrncnts, e\ccpr p,,....
supcrnatural beings rvith human fcatures, birds, butincluclingthebcltanclthe hcrrcl.l¡..-.
felines, fish, camelids, and snails, with the trpical
Unlilie the gateu'ar-s' rclietl. s-h:c.-. :. :
poses of staff gods andrvinged ¿¡1s¡d^¡1s-occurs half hiddcn, accorcling to Prorzen's rcc, ::- :in the decoration of anthropomotphic frecstanding (Protzen ancl Nair 2002 a,b) ancl n-crc lr ,c..:. . .
-
statues (Nfakorvski Hanula 2001b, 2002; Isbell
and of transit benvccrr two cn\-i1.()nmcrrr:. ::-.- por- represented in reLief on rhc surtacc ,,f ::-.. -'
.
Iinobloch 2006). These monolithic sculptures
-,
tra! human figures drcssed in ceremonial garmcnts, u,ere relatir-eir- casr- to see ancl potenti:tl1-, ,,;,-.,.
s-ith textile Patterns indicated bv relief clecorations to the multituclcs asscn'ibled in thc pl:rz.r:. - - :
rlf mvthical figures aligned in a processional man- ficiants of rites, lvho x'crc kings ancl/or pnc.:-ncr (fie' 1¡, 4b,5). A frontal figure atop a stepped most likell clressccl in turnics, bclts, ancl hc.,.lc:.. .
plrttcrrrrr r¡r th,: k¿ro cup in t1-rc hands of the human u'ith hguratir-e decoration cluite sirnilrrr r( ) ::-...:
stirtr-tc ilsclf constitutes tl'rc point of slmrnctrr- the statucs. Thc sculptrtrs u.ho clccorated th..:..
t( )$-:lrd u-iricit thc proccssions :rrc dircctccl. In :iclcü- s'cre inspirccl bv tl.re actual ceremonial qrrrrL-ir:- .tií)n to thc É¡rr, cup. thc st:lrucs hold in botl-r hlnds lcproclr-rcecl their clcsicns more orlcss fhithtull.. ,:
cithcr ccrtrrin rirurl implcmcnts. t¡ars tbr l-relluci- canbcseeninsomcpicccsof clgthi¡g¡'h¡sc ¡.-nogenic pos-ders, or knives tcir sacrihcc (Bennett ration is oi cxceprional qualitr- ancl con-rplerir-. ::
193-t, hg. 25; Ponce Sanginés 1961 119901, hg.7; fortunateh'l-rar-e bccn prcscrr-ccl, such as rhe G..:
(-ochamama; EI Nlonje, Nlakowski Hanuia 2001b, u.avTunic mcnrionccl abtx.c (\bung-Sánchcz ,,
', 92-93, hg.97a,b; Isbell 2001b, ñg.20 fthree mono- fig. 2.22) and thc \\hri-Tiu-anaku robe in thc S¡.,
litl-rs presen'ed beside the old railu''av ünel). The Nfuscum of F,thnologv in Nlunich (see Zuiclcrl
fisuratir-c decotation co\¡ers the entire surthcc of
this r-olume, fig. 1a). Thc clecoretion oi rhc rr,i¡.
tesembles
¿
knorvn tic-dlc clesisn used in Tis-ln.ri.
-.
skirts v-ith cliagonal lines ancl circlcs. The krnq sitl..
are \\oven r.vith ts-clr-e
staff cleitics each, ¿11 of ih.
ttct pt.'ir.rtcti
same size, stancling trontallv s.ith their
outward and alisnecl one bcside another. Ilds-rrrcl cl.
Bock and Tom Zuidema har-c analr-zed t1-re distribution of the multjcolored circlcs th¿it fcrrm part of th.
dccoration of the robc ancl disccx-erecl complcx crrlcnclar codes coresponding to a \.ear
of
365 clar-s errcl
nvelve months (de Bock and Zuidema 1990,46t)-(r91.
Fes'Tis'anaku monoliths s.ere tound in
thrce cases, tl-rat
2(,)(
)3,
2
-;0.
2-5
sitr_r. ir-r
of Putuni ((louture ancl Sampcck
1, tig. 3.38), I{alasasava (Poncc Sanginé
s
19(r9; I{olata 2003, 168), ancl thc Seni-subterrancar-r
Temple (Poncc Sanginés 1964 [1990]), the placc of
discoverv indicates tl-rat the starues orisin^llv st(x)cl
in the center of sunken plazas. A monumcntal qate-
Fig. 5. Poncc n-ronolitl'r. tlr¡nr vies: ,?hoto: D. (iiannoni).
\--
rvav and stairs connected the l{alasasava prccinct
t<r
a larqe sunken court)'ard, known
as
in the üterature
the Semi-Subterranean Temple. V'endell Bennett
(Ponce Sanginés 1964 [1990)) found in the central
'(g €g)
polracl elnvtu¡oC eqr Jo a¡uasa¡d aql'uJnesnur alIS
rr\eu eg :q1'2002 ul'puoces eq] pu? ¡l.atdec u¿t.tqog
lrqt[ouour aSrq aq¡ drrvnb z sz Pesn uaaq
aqt ur aserlt Jo tsJg arp-eze¡d er{t Jo Jaluer arp
a.tvq sprurerdd puz surro;ry¡d ¡era-teg 'uou¿dn¡co
¿truI eqt arurs n1euúal¡ 3o xaldurotr lutuawnuou¡
ur rlr{ouow Deuueg aqt Sultoqs eputu uaaq a zr{
a¡dua¡ uueu?rrelqns-r-was ol{r Jo suonlnllsuoleJ
a^rssaJJns 'uotrrsoddns srqr Sultrogod 'nlls ur PunoJ
erll 3]sJlsuotuep sql{ouotu elslduroful Joq}o
(qtrJouour
aqt o] ezIS uI JúIruils
ltauuag
sE
peaq
s?
Tla,4a'
aql dq peraJJns suonvratlv rza.r8 -¡o aruapna 3w
-tunoru parnpord a-r.eq 'ta-ra-rroq 'srea-i luefeJ -Io
suon¿-wr\a rlr¿u¡ers-is aql '(ql00z ¡aqs1 :u9661
¿rqol
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u-iusese¡uy eql ero_laq rlmq'xa¡dtuotr aqr rn a)5Tpa
tsrg aqt su a¡dura¡ uuarrvrretqns-r-u¡es eqr eruP or
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uaaq szq araqt Íra,torsrp stl aruls '(t '39) qlriouoür
De{ruag snorrrzJ aqr st'euo lsa8rq aqt 'qlmo; aqt
aT.rr¡,tr 'porra¿ er\RvuIJoC eql uJoü are 'uorsora fq
paratlu uoltzrorep aldurs qtl.,rr 'qrlqra, Jo aeJgl
'sentuts rnoj Jo elquasue ue pryftrnoc eqr 3o rrud
'(zrerrag '3 :3ur.nu;q) 's1eqal :qlrJouour lauuag 9 €t¿
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go¿eü
apz€p
of teüefs on the back. @taüng: C. Hetrera)
Ievel
of destruction that components of the sculp-
tural decoration
of Akapana,
I{alasasaya, and the
surrounding area were subiected to. Extirpators
of
idolatrv intentionally destroyed pre-Hispanic images.
The Ponce monolith, which was lying on its side,
uas probablv knocked down bv them, to iudge from
I
the presence
of
an incised cross (Vtanichl'999,49).
Nonetheless, the location, orientation, and
stratigraphic context documented in the profiles
and
in the published plans,
as
well as in atchival
photographs (Bennett 1934; Ponce Sanginés 1964
[1990]), lend credence to the hlpothesis that the
four monoliths originally stood at the center of the
Semi-subterranean Templet sunken plaza.The fo:u
were found aügned one next to another, with their
bases near the center of the plaza and the upper
extremities pointing north-northwest. According
to Carlos Ponce Sanginés Q002,51),who reviewed
Fig. 8. Giant head, Tirvanaku site museum
(Photo br- K. Ilalios-ski Hanula).
the field documentation
of
the eadier investigations,
and who also excavated and reconstructed the Semi-
'(ruouuztg 'q :oroq¿¡) 's{¿¡ral¿ti PU¿ sqlrl
'6 €l.t
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wn¡,n-vf,v¡ o] ssaffs sa¡r8 l¿r{r d¿rnaluS il{] Jo elpPr-tu eql uI
eqt ¡¡¡ pue seJnllnr EIernd pue udrm¡3 eql w PoIracI seslr PEeq esoq,4A' 'ql¡ouour eluod aqt 8utce3 sv
e¡D¿urrod eqt r¡ stuaperaluv a^rsuetxe pzq luqr uoD gcns 'alqrssod ueaq a^Eg oslu Plno¡a' suonuluauo
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aldural aq] qloq ,ase¡ fu¿ uI .(t002 ¡esnuuf igg¡¿ pesn?f, ueeq p"q IpJ aq] 31 'ruudY¡y eq] osp snqr
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.n{uncl etuncl pue uuudely'sprurzrid Sursodur o¡¡l
etues eqt ro; Álqeqord pue 'eouo }3 IIaJ II¿ faqr rYqr
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aru¿t¡odu¡r rraqr lxa¡druor I¿ruouJaJeJ urzru s,ruluu aql 'atoruraqun¡'vzv¡d ua>luns eql Jo uorssardap
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aql Jo rred srql ]Eql uorwJrpul us sI 'dra,torsrp ¡o
e^oq¿ patuasard aouapr,ta eqt Jo Surpvat aqr ;1
.(e .Sg) sserfz
aql
3o .(z.rcru8 pdicur.rd erp Jo etuzry ]ueurour eqr rz sqdurSoroqd ur pePJo3eJ 'acuj
aqJ,
eqt urgllN elqls1,t 'tsve ar{} ur poo}s ter{} q}{ouorrr Jo epIS rq8p aqr uo uorsore Jo e}Els Perus^PB
púaq aqt Jo uonf,erlP eq] ur )iool o1 '(Oeet [Vr)etl sgur8uug aruo¿) alslnurnfru o] ]uauI
]touueg eql
Jo
-Ipes Jo ?}BJ}s Pra^as .ro3 q8noua 3uo1 'a¡n1.lt poo8 e
peluarro pooq{aI{ llu ur sB.¡N rüqououI eruocl ar{I
.svzv¡d o.,rlt ar{} s>lurl tuqt d¡}au¡tufs
Jo srxe aqr 8ur JoJ poqlno}un,{u1 ante}s eg} }er{t satssrptn }ueurarqd
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sac¿r] ,uo¡¿ro1 pur8uo alqyqord 4aW q Surpuurs tuorJ er{l tsrg ,4lt?s }}euuag 'uonrsod }Er{l ur peuwur
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rrafo¡d ppo¡ñtzql eu{ aql'sarnrd¡nrs o¡r} eqr uaelu peureldxa aq.{yur qtrFI¡N'u.lo.op dor aqr tuor; pa13ue
-aq azrs ur eruaraJ;rp eqt roJ sat¿suadu¡oc qr¡{¡tr .ipq8¡1s sB.{\ tr t?qt os 'sreJatu 0B'I }e se,n acard aql
,raqlo aqr ol t¡ul¡e¡d auo urory do.rp alqyrou aqr
slueql'rq8raq ru¡nlls
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t? aq pFo.4A,
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aql ur sarnldpls aq] Jo uoputuelro elp
'(IOOZ'qlOOZvynuz¡grys.llo>lzry
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These chatacteristics and the hlpothetical
presence their
::::-;:
l-r, -;
costumes. The Putuni monolith has
locus characteristics (Couture and Sampeck 2l)lll.
iruti- fig. 9.38), as do two small statues, one in thc c,,, =¡ated Tiwanaku's transformation into a reügious and tion of the Nfetropoütan N{useum oi Art ecd
=.
poiitical center with full hegemonv in the Titicaca other in the Peter Blum Collection in \eu- \- :u
Basin (Stanish 2002,2003). Several authors (I{olata (Young-Sánchez 2004,35, 133, fr,gs 2.1.4 and -:. 2003, 194' Couture 2004) have tightly observed The statues look üke miniature, portable \-si-s:, :r<
that the fir.'e statues u/ere surrounded bv other of human-size(orsomewhatlessthanhuman-.'..
sculptures of human figures in similar attire. In the monolithic statues, such as the ones ¡¡q¡¡j, '::;J
Semi-Subterr^ne^n Temple, tenon heads projected above; thev have the same shape, details, and s:-..,
from the tbur u'alis of the sunken courfi-ard. There In the statue belonging to the Nfetropolitan- =r.vas a clear intention to give a certain individual relief decoration covers the belt and skirt; in i:-.
touch to ther phvsiognomic features, even though statue from the Peter Blum Collection, it occutrr<
the headdresses are similar. In Kalasasar-a there \\-as the band of the headdress as well. This latter st-r¡:.
room for several statues, such as the one that is still has its hands aligned with the body, as in the Pun:::
displaved there todar, knorvn as El Nlonje (Ilakos'ski monolith (Couture and Sampeck 2003), but the ¡e Hanula 2001b,92-93, fig.97a, b). To judge ftom maining details, such as the headdress, tear-track:.
of
of
elite burial chambers make this the probable
-
the ancestral cult, founded by the rulers who
the pieces preserved in situ and in the
collections
earrings, and necklace are completely comparab,.
in fragments, the figures with the Bennett and Ponce monoliths. Surprisinel'.'.
in this particulat fotm wcre dressed the decoration and the shape of the headdress i.
in the same t\¡pe of garments and headdresses. exactly the same as that of the monumental head ¡¡
It is interesting to note, however, that there is the Tiwanaku site museum (fig. 8). If the size :rn,j
an indisputable relationship between the size of
location of the statues bear a direct relation to th.
of
museums, whole or
represented
the freestanding sculpture, on one hand, and the status of the person portrayed, the comparisons norcomplexin'of decoration of its attire, on the other. ed above would seem to demonstrate that the sociel
This relation caflnot be explained bl obiective fac- position of the otficiants was expressed exclusir-eh'
tors, such as the available space tbr reüef decoration; through the decoration of their unku turics, thei
instead, it must have been intentional. For example, belts, and their headdresses: the Lrrgher the status, the
the Bennett monolith, br- far the tallest and most greater the number of mythical figures represented.
important, is the statute with the greatesr diversin'
\\,ho did the statues poftfa\r: priests (Ponce
of supernatural figutes represented. The figurative Sanginés 1969), ancestors (Couture 2004), or rulers
decoration occupies the entire space of the unku (Kolata 2003, 194-97)? Alan I{olata (2003) and
tunic, and also covers the band of the headdress, the Young-Sánchez Q004) righdy emphasize the er.ident
belt, and the skirt. By contrast, on the monol-ith El
ceremonial function of the emblems that most oi
than
the Ponce monolith, oniv the belt and the skirt are
decorated. Significantlli there is not a single mythical fipgre among the designs reproduced there. The
complex liguratir-e designs are limited to one frieze
of crustaceans on the belt. Nevertheless there is
N{onje, which is close to human size and smaller
enough space for figrrratir-e relief in his
the human figures represented in freestanding sculp-
ture hold in their hands. The kero cup is used for
the ceremoniai offering and consumpúon of chiclta,
an alcoholic drink generally made with maize. The
knife that sometimes appears (namely, in El Monle:
Nlakou'ski Hanula 2001b,93, figs. 97a,b) alludes to
undecorated a bloody
human
iconographv in
sacrifice
of
humans and camelids. The
unku.It seems that onlr'statues greater than
snuff trar.s evoke the mantic abilities that the of-
size were decorated w-ith complex
ficiant acquires as a result
of
ecstatic rites entailing
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have
garments decorated with images of various anthropomorphic mvthicai beings. Their location, size,
ancl decoration indicate that the Bennett and Ponce
seen that onlv the statues
of
supernatural size
monoiiths must have represented supreme rulers,
the kings of Tiwanaku from the era when they
extencled their power bevond the southern
tendants in profile with respect to the frontal dein:
the absence of the stepped platform beneath ttcr
that walk toward the right; the number of plumes
in the halo (fourteen instead of twentl'-four; fig' - '
In the case of the Bennett monolith, the results
of the comparison
reaches frontal
of theTiticacaVallel' (Stanish2002,2003;Janusek
are even more surprising. The
deiq'', atop a stepped structure' does nc't
resemble that
of the Gatewav of the Sun, eren
2004). Following this supposition, the other statues though his position with respect to the othet figureswould possibly correspond to hgures of lou,er rank. in the center of the composition, would lead one
Iconographic analvsis of the images represented to expect close iconographic links between the ñ\'o
in reliei that simulate the decoration of ceremonial images, u'ith small stylistic differences (figs. 4b. ó:
garments ot-fers a goocl opporrunin- to check this Xlakos'skiHanula 2001b,74,fr,g'79a).IntheBennen
hvpothesis regarding rhe starues' identin'. It also monolith the deiq' does not hold staffs in his nr-o
makes it possible to r-eriñ-rvhether the hrpothetical hands, but rather rvhat seem to be st1üzed plants'
reconsrruction oi Tis-anaku reügion as a henothe- Other sn'lized plants form his feet. His crown or
istic system, q-ith onlv one supreme
god-on the
halo has se\¡enteen raved plumes (fig. 12b) instead
oi trventr,-four. The seven plumes that should close
pu¡gtr¿6-is in fact corroborated bv archaeological sources. According to the the frame around his face, below the beard, are not
hypothesis developeclbvNfenzel (1968b) and Cook represented. The plumes in the halo take on the
aspect of frontal faces, u'ith a smiling expression.
(1,994,2001), the garments' decorarion would be a
instead of feline or avian heads in profile alternatinq
vartanf of all or part of the "theme of homage by
winged attendants to the staff god" as tepresented with disks, as in the Gateway of the Sun. The frontel
in the Gatewav of the Sun. One might also then {igure is surrounded not by winged attendants in
surmise that a1l the great statues of krngs would bear profiie but rather by four faces that correspond, to
the same image of the staff god, while the subor- judge b,v the I'arf ing details, to at least three ditter\ü/e have seen that the iaces
<]inate figures' clorhes would be adorned rvith one ent fi'pes of staff gods.
of the winged anthropomotphic beings rn profile. constitute an abbreviated form of representation
order of Vi¡acocha e¡
The evidence shows nothing of the sort. In
the
for the staff gods since the Formative Period, s-hen
seriesmadeupofcompletesculptutesandlargefotsomefeasonthefull-bodl,versionwasnotused
fragments
of
monoüths that are partly
destroyed,
(compare the Chunchukala monolith, full-bodv s'ith
of its hands overits chest: I{olata 2003,fr'g.7.5). In the
them can be consideted eithet a copy or a direct Bennett monoüth, on both sides of the stepped
antecedent oi the Gates-ar-of the Sun. The decora- platform over .¡'hich the central deigv rests' there
are t\ro almost identical faces whose halos have slr
tion of the Ponce n-ronolith (figs. 5, -) is closest to
the Gatel-al oi the Sun in terms of its composi- plumes, three to each side of the face; the plumes
tion and the iconosraphic characteristics of the end i.n zoomorphic heads that are now highlv eroded
frontal god, but er-en in this case there are notable (drawn as felines and birds in Posnanskv 1945). From
differences: the orientation oi most of the profile the forehead of each face springs an apparentlr'phr-figures, g,ho furn their backs on the central deitv tomorphic, candelabra-shaped element. The same
object sprouts from the feet of the principal dei¡
instead of approaching him, as in the Gateu'ay of
the Sun; the presence oi anthropomorphic beings as well as from the bodies of two mythical llamas
with feline and fish faces; the distribution of the at- that accompanv him. Above the deig'are two more
there are no such figurative designs, and none
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eql pue u.ro;rqd paddats aq1 rr^o uonurol Jrer.[] Jo
entJl ig '(q EU) arzS s,úrap I¿luef, aq] s? ezIS eLu¿s
aqt sI t?qt saunld rno;-ihua-ru Jo ap?Lu opq pa,(ur u
qtr¡N al¿J a8.rq z 3un¡oddns qcya'sur.rojtlqd paddals
Lil
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a themes, as in Br,zantine or Renaissance i!:- : :: ¡-.F
knee-length turuc with no belt and u'hat is probabll' of episodes reiatins a sacred histor¡, a iirer::
':
a mande gathered at the shouldets. N[ost of their or a mvth is spread throush canonical com]':-: ú:
on this monolith are exceptional, consisting of
,,:..,
chests are decorated with image s of a mt,thical
feLine.
The mantle appears to be
1978).
a woman's
(I-von
The Statf God: One or Many?
of main
rcs¡;.-:- :
positions, and even gestures and scenes are :::::-:r=l
b). tradition. (]enetallv thete is an illustrated b - =- r-volved in this drffusion. A model composidr,:: c::- -e
in rvhich the number
actors, theú
p.r.::-;'l
In the context of the evidence presented above, the
copied in drarvtng or painting, u'hollv or in
question posed in this subhead mav seem rhetori-
or r.vithout slight variations,
proot that might
support, in a trulv convincing wa)', the existence of
consideting thematic structure the guidrne prÍ-c-rr,:
cal. Indeed, we frnd no empirical
as
u'ell as ad:rplrc
other media. Christopher Donnan (19-5)
:
,:
su::-..:=:
themes, each with a single protagonist: the theme
in N{oche art. Regardless of the polemics ¡h:: -::-.
vierv might eücit (Nlakorvski Hanula l!!(. r* I ";
2005; Quilter 1997), the differences benr-een \[, c:.:
of
and Tiwanaku iconographv are immediateh- obr:, ' '.-
a thematic structure in Tirvanaku att and even less
the notion that its iconographv revolved around rrvo
homage to the staff god (Nlenzel 1964; Cook
of sacrifice (Cook 1983,1994).
When narcaive content is expressed b1' means of
1983) and the theme
not onlf in terms of the conventions for
reprcs.n--:
deeds and actions and the scenes in s'hich the'.'
¡:i.
of actors, the repcrt, '::.
of performances, and the complexin'of the t-i..In the Tirvanaku repertoire thcrc are no sccrlcsin the strict scnse clf the term. tach figure, s-iti.r ,':
without emblems of action (rr''eapons or a slcriÉci..knife and a tr()phv heacl, a plant, or a staft;. is tr'..tt..i
as an inclependent unit. His pose and orientrd, 'n
r.i s-i-r.is the remaining flgure s i s highlr' conr-en rio nri
and ober.s lasrs of altcrnation, svmmetr\., and inr-ersion much as in heraldry (González 1 974). \\'e har e
seen that in most cases the rows of rvinged hqurcs
in profilc ckr not face the frontal deiq', to s'hom thei.
place, but also in the number
supposecllr.par-homage, but rather face the oppositc
direction, probablr- as determined b,v the orientr-
tion of the statue rvith regard to an external pornt
in thc ceremonial space: e.g., facing east, tou,ard the
center of the gxteway into I{alasasaya, in the case
Fig.11. Supernatutal fieutes on the
partialll, pteserved monoliths Cochamama or Pachamama (a, b) and
Pachacamac (c) (Portugal Orrí2, 1998
and documentatl photos, atchives of
D. Giannoni and K. N{akorvski Hanula). (Dtar-ings br- C. Herrera)
b.
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Papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
The g\phs iisted above repeat in almost all Ti_
gruWtrffipHH
*-anaku scuipture (see rable l. with the comparison
ggffi
Wffi#'
oi plumes in halos) as rvell as in Wari rexúles and
\ffi:
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"o'.ErfSR.
porter\. Several of these ghphs also cpperr in snuff
ffi
Hrl¡¡¡#
ffireE]]trars(Torresl987,90-96;l994),infigurativeceremics (Alconiru N{ujica 1995), and in Tiwanaku metal
"
ornaments (e.g., Nlakorvski Hanula 2001b, ñg.70.
Exceptional designs that appear as emblematic
attributes
of the central figure of
the Gatervar- of
the Sun, and are aiso associated with the minor
figures on the stepped border that delimits the
lower part of the trieze, complete the repertoire:
Fig. 12. Frontal figures in Uori and Tirvanaku i.ol-ronroph...
a. Gate\\'a\- oi the Sun. b. Bennett monoiith, central ligure. c.
Bennett monoüth, lateral leti hgure. d. Conchopata jug (Cook
1994). e. Conchopata urn (trIenzel 1968b). f. Conchopata urn
(Ilcnzel 1968b). (Draüngs br- C. Hetrera).
1, Fantastic feiine head r,vith
tures (crest and tear-tracks) and a crou,n (fig. 13
ngtu a)
2. Frontal feline face (ñg. 13 lefr d)
3.
profile running, walking, or "flr:ing"
Q¡..ing face
down),
multipll,and line up in rows to form a procession.
The interior
of
these figures, whose posture and
falconid facial fea-
Trophr heads (hanging from rhe arms and the
skrrt; figs. 1, 14a)
4. Feline serpeflt uüose bodl,is covered with
plumes and scales (a fantastic otter?; fig. 13 rightk)
orientation are shorvn br, ouünes, is filled with seem-
5. Small brrd r.vith a short, curr-ed beak (ñg.13
inglr, abstract elemenrs, similar to gl1'phs or takapas
6. Fantastic
(s1-mbolic motifs repeated on Inca tunics). The fol-
7. Pair
lorving list
of "glrphs"
decoration
of
has been estabüshed from the
the Gateu'ar-
1. Stepped sign
of
the Sun (fig. 13 @i):
u'ith an or-al disk on top
(a)
3. Feüne herrd in profile (c)
4. Tripartue plume (d), sorne dmes com-
bined with the frontal image
5.
Frontal face
of a ttline
head
of brrds uith
of a bird of pre.\,(0
of a bird of pre). G)
ó. Double head
Ulk)
14c)
r.erv long u'ings and short
8. Rainbowlike tw-o-headed serpent (fig. 14c)
9. Double croun (fig. 14c)
Trumpeter (fig. 14c)
The basic elements listed above combine to
form attributes of the figures: tear-ttacks, internal
appendages (bodv paint?), bird tails and u-ings,
taved crowns
(e)
of a fish (fig.
beaks (fig. 14c)
10.
2. Plume s'ith disk (b)
bird u'ith the head
of
plumes, decorations for stepped
platforms (figs. 13 left a-c, e-j). At the beginning
8. Fish head ftr)
of a work, the sculptor, wea\-er, or ceramist would
sketch the outlines of a figure chosen from a
9. Snail shell (i)
repertoire
7. Single head
10. Headless
11.
bodr.of a bird
(j)
Bird of pre¡-, full bodv (k)
12. N[eander
(1)
13. Concentic sign, called cochaby Posnansk¡
(i945) and some Boür-ian archaeologists (m)
14. Condor head (bird rvith crest and ruff)
of
conventions and modfs that
r.vere
customarilr. reproduced. As mentioned earüer, the
repertoire of conventions was hmited to five r.ariants: standing frontal figures, frontal figures walking to the left or right, figures in profile walking,
figures in profile ruuning, and figures lving face
down in the position of flight. The iconographic
of sculpture is as restricted as the formal
repertoire (Nfakowski Hanula 2001b, figs. 84-86):
repertoire
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ur sa¡n8r,r 'q 'am8g IB¡uaJ 'E uns aqt 3o {e,r,rarzg '¡1 €rg
pa>pu pue erEJ eqt uo sacqd asrcerd utpauonrsod a¡s
.{aqr arurs frnuapr srr
r{lut
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s[¿]ap qtul rorratrll s]r ilU p1nortr vvsrlrv aql 'ern35
eser{t }BrI} erunss? o} elqeuoseer sI
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saulled
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puv sLEl prTq rül¡N sarn8g rrqdrourodoJqtuv .
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arar{I's}uewals Jo errouedar paxS r qSnorqr (7661
uzurra.t¡g) su8rsap tounsqe ,{puereddz raql ut s8ur
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slueru
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were
embroi-
1990a,b; Frame 1994). The outlines
Tablel
marked beforehand, sketched and
comparison of Plumes in Halos
dered, and then filled in with details. In the
Case"
Paracas Necropolis iconographic repertoire
No. of plumes
one rarelv finds two motifs that are trulv
alike
of
in all their details, but the
design and the rules
of
elements
combination
are repeated (Makowskr Hanula 2000b).
Feline heads
Bird heads
Frontal faces
Bird wings
Bird headsb
I
am convinced
16 16
Round disks
same deity rests on the supposed differences
phic face and lack wings.
(241d
-04
06
16
plúmes
Oval disks
Feline headsb
01 01
01 01
- 02,
- 02,
-14
tiz
16
01
01
0l
--
Fish headsb
;
;;
01
-01
02
-- 02
02
02
01
02
02
13
06
16
-16
01
'l_
9
,lu,'
02
".
04
Tripartite
profile. The former have an anthropomor-
78
56
24
Fish heads
Ultimatel¡ the hlpothesis that all the
images of a frontal figure with a rayedha).o
and two staffs always correspond to the
between the frontal beings and those in
1234
24 24 24
0604-06
': :-,
(?)
01
01
Feline/bird
headsb
Tripartite
plumesb
that these differences are not absolute and
inherent to those figures but rathet derive
from limitations of the formal conventions
when appüed to a fÁeze or abas-reüef. Cook
recently stressed (2001), and rightlv so, rhat
the only known Pucara antecedent for the
Tiwanaku frontal figures had wings. She
"The numbered cases correspond to the following figures. Question marks
Indicate cases where the shape cannot be determined because of poor
preservation.
1
as
well. The Pucara antecedent is
a
5. Chuki Apo Marco stela (Portugal
pany the staff god, there is at least one case
where the figure is represented frontally
rather than in profile. Its sculptural head
Ortiz 1998, 244,fr1.218;here
fi9.11)
small
ornithomorphic figures that usually accom-
ofthe Sun, rayed faces in the lower frieze (fig.4)
4. Bennett monolith, frontal rayed face on the left (figs. 5b, 1 6c)
ofthe Moon, frontal rayed face (fig.4)
monolith, frontal figure in the center (figs. 5b,6)
8. Cochamama monolith, frontal figure (fig. 12)
9. Ponce monolith, frontal figure (figs.7b,8)
6. Gateway
7. Bennett
three-dimensional statue. The wings can-
not be seen from the front, but are visible
from the sides and back (Cook 2001.,54,
ñgs62a,b). On the other hand, among the
Gateway of the Sun, frontal figure with staffs (fig. 1 0a)
3. Bennett monolith, frontal rayed face on the right (fi9s. 5b, 6)
therefore believes that üe Tiwanaku figures
did
.
2. Gateway
b
Signs represented in the stepped platforms
'Alternating feline and bird heads
d
Estimate oftotal number ofelements based on the part that has been
preserved
see
the freestanding feline, Young-Sánchez 2004, ñg.4.1)
well as birds, and any
of üese
as
may be represented frontalll,
adorns a beautiful painted Ti.wa¡aku kero
or in profile depending on the context. This conclusion may
(Nlakowski Hanula 2001b, 80, fig.
be further confirmed by a brief exercise
881,
cf. qero
of the imagination.
in fig. 73). The halo that surrounds the bird
If
of prey's face has sixteen figurative plumes
in which feline heads, ripartite signs, and
disks alternate. The central figure of the
Gateway of the Sun has similar plumes in
its halo. Evidendy rayed halos, made of
so that they appeared frontally and represented in a wav that
their rayed crowns. Those in profile have only five, but that
figurative plumes, and wings charactenze all,
results ftom the impossibility
anthropomorphic figures (fantastic animals,
when only half the face is exposed; twelve plumes corre-
camelid and feline, also have halo crowns:
sponding to the other half
the profile figures on the Gateway
of the Sun were turncd
relied solely on the formal resources that Tiwanaku sculptots employed, the wings would disappear, concealed by the
torso. The figures would have up to twenty-four plumes in
of projecting the entire
of üe
halo
face remain hidden, and
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The Tiwanaku pantheon represented in
the reliefs ftom that site is luxuriant, in no
way reducible to the four figures knou¡n
ftom the upper fiieze of the Gateway of
the Sun. How many deities were there? It
is clear that three groups of supernatural
beings make up the Tiwanaku pantheon:
Table2
Comparison of Anthropomorphic Beings
Emblemu't2345678910
FRONTAL EMBLEM
Feline-+?___?
Bird+-++++?___?
Fish?++?
OTHER sIGN5 IN THE HEADDRESS
Snail
+++++++++?
Plume++++++++++
Bird++++++_?
Fish+++?
Anthropomorphic winged figures
2. Anthropomorphic and winged
1.
animals: birds, fish, felines, land
SIGNS ON THE BODY
snails, deer (see Cook 1994, pl. 50)
3. Animals whose supernatural char_
sIGN5 ON THE WINGS
Bird++++++_?
Fish+++?
Bird-+++++_+
Fish+-_++_
Mixed
acter is signaled by rayed halos or
glphic
signs
within the space of the
body: camelid (fig. 6); cf. Torres 19g7,
_
Bird-+++++
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b--++++_+_
figs. 88, B9), condor (cf. Torres 1987,
fig. 86), bird
+
STAFF ORNAMENTs
of prey (I\4akowski Hanula
2001b,80, fig. B7).
uThe numbered
emblems correspond to the following figures. For the
Bennett monolith, the initial A precedes the six varianis of anthropo_
morphic figures, followed by a number. euestion mark indicate cases
The anthropomorphic winged figures
differ from each other in the number of
plumes in their halos or rayed crowns and
the combination of glyphic signs. When
where the shape cannot be determined because of poor preservation.
they are represented in pro6.le, their identity
2. Personage in the lower row ofthe Gateway ofthe
Sun
3. Personage Ala in the upper row ofthe Bennett
seems to be indicated by the specific
form
of the figurative plume on their foreheads
(cf. Gateway of the Sun, fig. 14b). The
remaining rypes
of plumes
are shared by
all the profile figures. By contrast, when
supernatural beings are presented frontally,
it is the combination of various plumes in
the halo, rather than a single plume, that
gives them their indiüdual personality and
allows us to distinguish among similar dei_
ties. The iconographic context shows that
the anthropomorphic beings whose halo
was adorned by feline heads (Gateway
of the Sun, figs. 14a, I2a) or by smiling
faces (Bennen monoüth, figs. 6, 12b) rcp_
resented the most important gods. Each
of them had a latge retinue made up of
two to four anthropomorphic attendants
poftrayed frontally and several more in
profile, both humans and fantastic animals.
1. Personage in
the upper row ofthe Gateway ofthe Sun
monolith
4. Personage Al b in the upper row ofthe Bennett monolith
5. Personage A2a in the lower row of the Bennett
monolith
6. Personage A2b in the lower row of the Bennett
7. Personage 43 on the headdress ofthe Bennett
monolith
monolith
8. Personage A4 in the lower row of the Bennett monolith
9. Personage A5 in the upper row ofthe Bennett
monolith
1 0. Personage A6 (snail) on the
headdress ofthe Bennett monolith
b
Additional appendage in the form ofa spearthrower hook
ending in
bird head.
a
The glyphic signs whose combination in the attire, attri_
butes, and body painting
of each supernatural being define its
personality and allow classification by iconographic tlpes
and
variants (subqpes) form an entire system. Of course, it is
not
possible to decode the concrete meaning of the signs, since,
with the exception of certain archaisms, the iconogaphy of
Tiwanaku did not survive the demise of that culture, which
took place berween A.D. 900 and 1100 (Kolata 1993a), thus
probably pteceding the advance of the Aryara (Cerrón_
Palomino 2000). For these reasons the ethnohistorical in_
formation on the sixteenth centuryis of verylimited use for
iconographic studies. Nonetheless, the constants in the use
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social order in primitive times comes from this
plex
of
images and architectonic forms.
withthiscontext, theunkutuntcof
In
theofficiant/king
the earth and who travels every ye r along the path
traced by the Milky Way (Demarest 1981; Urbano
1981). Among the indications are rhe presence
of
majordivinities,eachimmobile snails, whose behavior precisely reflects environabove its stepped platform, as well as two symmetri- mental changes in humidity; fantastic plants; the
cal processions, each composed of eleven m¡hical possibly mythical llama, mistress of the rains; and
represents atdadof
beings who walk toward the offering.
Presumably
the ritual is being carried out in the deities' honor.
The principal deity on the Bennett monolith is
styüzed streams
of
üquid that end in fish heads.
Unlike its counterpart in the Bennett monoüth,
the main deity represented in the unku tunic of the
diametrically opposed to the staff god in the Gate- Ponce monolith mainrains a resemblance with the
way of the Sun both because of his attributes-the iconography of the Gateway of the Sun, not onlv
cfowrl, the garments, the recurrence of styüzed because of the plumes in its crown and the two staffs
plants, and the absence of staffs-and because of
but also because of the identity of the winged attenthe unique characteristics of his attendants, the dants. The latter arearranged in three rows and have
camelids and fantastic snails. These characteristics human or avian heads. But despite the similarities,
offer clues that may help identify his personality. thete are also differences that could imply that the
The llama carying plants is known in Nazca 1 ico- frontal deities in the Bennett and ponce monolith
nography (X{akowski Hanula 2000b, 2005). In co- reüefs were not of the same rank the number of
lonial myths from the Huatochirí zone and modern plumes in the Ponce deity's crown, as well as the
myths from Cuzco (Urton 1981), it is described as factthat he lacks a platform and is shown walking
a fantastic atimal seen as a black shape against the in one of the processions, possibly indicates a lower
starry backdrop of the Milky Wa¡ alongside other rank. The characteristics ot- his unique winged atmythical beings, birds, snakes, toads, and felines. The ¿s¡d¿¡¿s-fslines ancl fish-may also reflect his d.ifllama is believed to be responsible for the waters that ferent nature. I(olata (I993a,2003) called attention
flow through Ma1u, the celestial tivet, and thus the to the significance of the east-west solar equinoctial
well-being
of humanity
In
of the
seems to have had
depends on this animal.
Pucata' art as well, the llama, as the attendant
female deity (discussed above),
axis in the spatial otganizattonof Kalasasaya. Recent
studies in archaeo-astronomy (Benitez, this volume)
confirm the role of the precinct as an observatorr..
a similar significance. And llamas are represented Might the main deities of the Ponce monoliü and
i¡r Tiwanaku censers, as they were in the Formative the Gateway of the Sun have been of a solar or astral
the nature? Even since the first studies by Arthur posof the domesticated cameüd, disappears nansky (I945),several authors (Anders 1986,1997;
fromtherepertofue.Mostremarkableisthe factthat Makowski Hanula 2001b; Zirdema, this volume)
the llama is the only supernatural animal that never have attempted to understand the calendar code
appears anthropomorphized, in either Pucara or
that rrray lie hidden in the iconographic program
Tiwanaku art. Could it be that the tole of herding of the Gateway. Although their read.ings differ, all
flocks that formedy belonged to the Pucara god- the scholars consider the complex alternations and
dess was assumed by the male (or androgynous?) repetitions of frontal figures to be annotations of
deity of the Bennett monolith? There is no lack of
calendar calculations produced by observation of the
evidence that might lead us to suspect that the deity solar cycle. Certain variations in the rayed halos and
poised above the platform could have been telated the stepped platforms that can be seen when comin his power and iurisdiction to Cuzco's Viracocha, paring the central image with abbreviated versions
the lord of subterranean waters, who gives üfe to
repeated in the lower portion of the fneze (ñg. lk;
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of
rvings
sel-eral deities with tw-o staffs and r.vithout
represented in the Pachacamac monolith (fig. 1 1c).
On the other hand, it is ükelv that the official
doctrine also evolved ovet several cenruries, and that
the hierarchical relations betv'een the main deities
same question could applrr
to the "assemblrl'
changed, possibly multiple times, as the
representa-
of the solar epiphanies of this same
Two
deiqr,
segments of relief with winged attendants rvere added to both sides of the frieze, a task
that rvas never completelv finished (fig. 1a). It is
therefore more than probable that the monoüthic
segment of v'all that bore the reüef never reached
main image)
its destination. Comparison
of the Gatewav of
the
of new lineages sought to legitimate theit right Sun relief with the Bennett monolith relief shov's
to power, e.g., in the case of Viracocha and Punchao that the main deities sculpted in each of these nr,-o
tir-es
in Tawzntinsur.r-r (Demarest 1981). The
decoration
of
of the stages of the religious doctrine's evolution. It
has been argued that the relief tiieze rvas intended
to decorate a roottd space-one of special importance, to judge from the splendid decoration of the
faqade with niches and üntels (fig. 1b; Protzen and
the Gatewar.
of the
Nair 2002a, 325, ñg.28), similar to the
architectonic
of
Puma Punku. Access to the precinct was relatñelv
restricted, as can be seen ftom the small size of the
entrance. Because of its location outside the areas
accessible to great multitudes, perhaps at the top
elements that lie to the east
of
monuments had opposite characteristics (table 5):
Iconographic analvsis
Sun is doubdess related to one
of the artificial
the Puma Punku Pvramid, the
slope
of the calendar
frieze
affords a good opportuniw to understand how the
details s'ere used,
in particular the repertoire of
glrphic signs intended to gil'e a face or a full-bodv
figure a precise identi¡,and also possiblv to indicate
the subject's condition Qtakowskr Hanula 2001b). if
the frieze does in fact represent the annual path of
the sun, the differences in the details
of the stepped
plattbrm w-ould denote the sun's svmboüc qualities
at the beginning of the,vear (the main image) and in
two halves of its journey The hvpothetical moflths
are represented b,v a combination
of chatactedstics
representational of the platform and of the s,vmbols added above
the the face in the rayed halo: arched rainbow, fish
content mav have been related to the beLiefs of
rovalfamill'thatcommissionedthetempleorpalace.
According to the most rvidel.v accepted interpretations, the iconographic program of the Gate\ñ'av of
the Sun consists not onlr- of the great image of a
supreme god but also of a tu'elve-month calendar
alluded to in eleven images (the nvelfth being the
Table
head, birds, trumpeters, etc. (fig. 14c).
be emphasized that the composition
of
It
should
the rar¡ed
halo does not vary, and in all tw-elve cases the same
scheme
of
the main figure is repeated: feline heads
alternating with circular disks at the trps
of the ravs.
On the other hand, comparison between the
5
Gateway of the Sun
t monolith
Sunken cour6.ard (belo.r,')
of the plaza, public place
Top of plramid? (above) interior rvall of an area oÍ
worship or royal residence, resüicted
Built in former times (past) and present for several cen
access.
Never finished or brought to its destination?
turies in the Tiwznaku landscape.
Statue
of gigantic
size,
u'ith figurative decoratir¡n of the
Relief lvith subjects smailer than natural size portral ed
of the
of a room or inward patio and under the roof.
On the relief: deiq of a solar nature, with staffs, of
continuouslv on a wide l-intel, in the upper part
garments.
wall
On the tunic decorated in reLief: dein- of a chthonic
nature, r.vithout staffs,
of high rank, 2 deiff
heads on
stepped platforms, 22 attendants [escorts?] (including
6 on the headdress), 10 humans and 8 birds, in addition
to 2 llamas and 2 snails as unique attendants.
high rank, 2 attendants repeated 11 times in 6 varieties,
9 times on stepped platforms, 30 attendants (not in-
cluding the 18 added on both sides), 20 humans and 10
birds, without unique attendants.
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(From the top of its crocodile head there
emerged three rays, each shining brighdy
like the rays of the sun; and where its arms
were joined [to the trunk] there v/ere twisted
snakes; on its head a llauto [turban] like the
Inca and its ears pierced with earfring]s in
them like the Inca and the garmerits and attire
of the Inca; a üon's head sprang from between
its legs and on its back was another Iion,
the arms of which seemed to embrace one
shoulder and the other, gtasping in a snakeüke
fashion from the shoulders on down.) (Iranslated by Rose Vekony)
Of
course, this does not suffice to prove that
Viracocha was in fact chosen by the ruler portrayed
in the Bennett monolith and that the Gateway of
the Sun represents Punchao. I beüeve it is possible that the image and tales of the Tiwan¿ku and
rJ7ad gods were partially preserved in memory, but
in a version reinterpreted from the perspective
of fout centuries of turbulent history. I likewise
agree with Kolata (2003) that there are notable
similarities between the structural principles of
bi- and quadripartition that prevailed in the ceque
system and the sacred geography
of Cuzco, on the
of Tiwanaku, on the other. Several
principles find close parallels in Ayr.rra:a
one hand, and
of
these
as staffs; however,
in the best-preserved fragment
of the figure depicted barely skim
of the panel. These edges consist of two
the fingertips
the edges
to three vertical lines and a patallel border made
of the stepped sign and spiral. In the case of
the other fragment, not only is there no vertical
up
element resembling a staff, but also the feline does
not even touch the edges of the panel, whose limits
are discernible by the change of surface color. Both
the sqrle and the iconography are cha¡acteristic of
myhical beings in the Middle Horizon 3-4 and the
Late Intermediate Period in the north-central coast
from Pativilca and Supe to Ancón (see Carrión Cachot de Girard 1959, 13542,ñgs.713-14; Ugane
Eléspuru 1999, pls. 2,3;Fiuliz Esttada 1999,pL7;
JknénezBorja 1,999, pls. 9, 10). It seems probable
these two gourds from the Late Preceramic
Period (udging from the C-14 dates) wete found
by chance at the end of the first millennium A.D.
by residents of the Pativilca Valley in the middle of
an ancient burial gtound thatwas disturbed as they
üat
dug new gtaves. The gourds they found were then
decorated (drawings ftom the Middle Honzon34)
and reused as offerings. Goutds from the Preceramic Period in the valleys of the Norte Chico tend
to be excellendy preserved, and the pre-Hispanic
of artifacts made from terracotta, gourds, or
use
bones recovered ftom the oldest graves has been
ftequently documented.
social organization (Albar nctn-J ordán n.d., 2003).
Tripartition doubdess played an important role
as an orgarizing principle. The sculptural decotation associated with three different architectonic
forms-üe sunken pIaza, the plaza on top of the
low platform, and the top of the stepped pyramidseems to indicate that the deities venerated in each
of them had characteristics comparable, respectively,
to the three Cuzco deities Viracocha (Thunupa:
Kolata 2003,200), Apu Huanacauri, and Punchao.
Note
In both gourd fragments one can cleady discern
feline figures shown in a frontal position standing
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