OPUESTOS COMPLEMENTARIOS
Esculturas femenina y masculina
Cultura del Occidente de México
Tequilita, Compostela, Nayarit
200 a.C.-400 d.C.
Barro
Museo Regional de Nayarit. INAH
The principle of female-male duality served to define the realms of the universe and its phenomena in a logic of alternation and closure of cycles, the feminine night and the masculine day, the feminine rainy season and the masculine dry season, the feminine death and the masculine life… these symbolic categories join a long list of concepts such as cold and warmth, humidity and dryness, darkness and light, earth and sky, below and above, north and south, west and east, water and hearth, wind and fire, swelling and consumption, private space and public space, among many others.
