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I chose this mechanism to explain to the audience what the meaning behind this ritual is.

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Medium: Wood, fiber, hide, pigment

Dimensions: W. 21 1/8 × D. 6 1/4 × L. 38 1/4 in. (53.7 × 15.9 × 97.2 cm)

Classification: Wood-Sculpture

Credit Line: Gift of Lester Wunderman, 1987

Accession Number: 1987.74i

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Mask (Kanaga) | Dogon peoples | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Medium: Wood, fiber, hide, pigment Dimensions: W. 21 1/8 × D. 6 1/4 × L. 38 1/4 in. (53.7 × 15.9 × 97.2 cm) Classification: Wood-Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of Lester Wunderman, 1987 Accession Number: 1987.74i

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I chose this mechanism to show what the dance entails for the Dogon people.

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Kanaga mask from Mali. Made of polychrome wood, leather cords, and hide. Early 20th century.

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Kanaga mask from Mali. Made of polychrome wood, leather cords, and hide. Early 20th century.

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This is a photograph of the Dogon Kanaga Mask Ceremony in Mali, West Africa. I chose this mechanism to show the audience how vibrant these ceremonies are.

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I chose this mechanism to show the audience what these textiles represented to the people who created them.

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I chose this picture to show the delicate and extensive process needed to create parks textile.

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I chose this mechanism to shed more light on the burial of the people of ancient Peru.

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BY AWAKE! WRITER IN PERU

YOU can learn a lot about a people from the way they treat their dead. This truth is particularly evident in Peru, a land where many cultures have left their mark​-among them the Moche, the Chimu, the Nazca, the Chachapoya, the Colla, and the Inca. Each culture had its own set of burial practices, reflecting distinctive beliefs regarding the afterlife.

Scientists as well as grave robbers have excavated thousands of burial places and discovered well-preserved remains wrapped in yards of woven fabric or unwoven cotton. Some of the material has been beautifully worked in varied designs. The hot, dry desert sands that cover most of Peru's Pacific Coast have yielded thousands of well-preserved mummified bodies.
Tombs of the Mighty
Excavations of Moche tombs have unearthed people of royal heritage who were buried with fabulous wealth and with swords and emblems of royalty. Other people were also buried with them. Evidently, servants were sacrificed to accompany their chieftains into the afterlife. Some even had their feet cut off. Why? One theory is that the intent was to render these attendants unable to flee their posts in the netherworld.

Near Lake Titicaca, at an altitude of 12,500 feet [3,827 m], are imposing burial tombs called chullpas, stone towers that are up to 40 feet [12 m] tall and wider at the top than at the base. These evidently housed the remains of the nobility of the Colla people, who were conquered by the Inca. Some of the tombs bear engravings of serpents, cats, and monkeys. These creatures were worshiped as guardians of the underworld.

At Karajia, near the town of Chachapoyas, there are tombs that stir the imagination. Six-foot-tall [2 m] sarcophagi made of hardened clay, some of them still bearing traces of the original paint from centuries ago, stand on ledges in the face of a cliff. The faces appear to be frowning majestically as they look out over a green valley, lording it over all that meets their unseeing eyes.
Evidence of Tragic Endings
In a suburb of Lima, archaeologists recently uncovered deep graves containing about 2,200 mummies wrapped in bundles. Evidently Inca in origin, the bundles were in excellent condition. One of them was massive, weighing 528 pounds [240 kg] and standing five feet nine inches [1.8 m] high. It was found to contain two bodies​-that of an Inca nobleman wrapped in 300 pounds [140 kg] of raw cotton and, next to the main bundle, the body of a child who may have been related to the adult. One can only wonder about the circumstances that led to those deaths so long ago.

Less mysterious​-but no less tragic-​are the bodies of children who were sacrificed as offerings to the Andes mountain gods. It may be that the parents of such young ones considered it a privilege to send their children off into the "next world," perhaps as emissaries to the gods. The children were usually buried at or near a mountain peak. The body of one young girl, hidden for centuries, was found on snow-covered Sara Sara in Ayacucho, at an altitude of some 16,000 feet [5,000 m]. Such sacrificed children were wrapped in robes, sometimes with gifts and tokens nearby, such as small gold or silver statuettes of llamas.
Hopes for the Dead​-What Was the Basis?
These past civilizations in Peru are not the only ones with burial rituals based on the belief that there is a mystical afterlife. In various ways even modern cultures express a preoccupation with life after death.

Beliefs about the afterlife vary widely today. For instance, reincarnation, the transmigration of souls, purgatory, hellfire, and the concept of communicating with the dead are widely cherished notions. Such doctrines are all based on a common teaching​-that at death only the body dies, survived by something immortal that lives on. The Bible does not support any of these ideas.​- Ecclesiastes 3:18-20; 9:5, 10; Ezekiel 18:4.

Rather, the Bible teaches that man himself is a soul, a living mortal creature. ( Genesis 2:7) However, the Word of God also offers a wonderful hope for the dead. It teaches that there will be "a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous." ( Acts 24:15) The Bible does more than merely assert such a hope. It contains the written, eyewitness accounts of a number of resurrections. ( John 11:17-47; 1 Corinthians 15:3-6) How wonderful, then, are the prospects for the millions who have lived and died through the ages!
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Sarcophagi at Karajia (above)
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© Mylene D'Auriol/PromPerú
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Burial towers 40 feet tall, near Lake Titicaca
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© Carlos Sala/PromPerú
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A young girl's frozen body was found high in the Andes

Archaeologists have uncovered about 2,200 mummies near Lima
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Top left: © Alejandro Balaguer/PromPerú; inset: Ira Block/NGS Image Collection

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Peru's Unusual Tombs-What They Can Teach Us - Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

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BY AWAKE! WRITER IN PERU YOU can learn a lot about a people from the way they treat their dead. This truth is particularly evident in Peru, a land where many cultures have left their mark​-among them the Moche, the Chimu, the Nazca, the Chachapoya, the Colla, and the Inca.

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Paracas textile. Wool embroidery. 3rd century BCE.          Lima, Peru

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Paracas textile. Wool embroidery. 3rd century BCE.          Lima, Peru

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Sarnath was the location of Buddha's first sermon. I chose this mechanism to give the audience a better understanding of where Buddhism comes from.

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I chose this quote from Buddha to exemplify what kind of a religion Buddhism was.

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I chose this mechanism to give the audience an insight into what Buddhism stands for.

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Statue of seated Buddha from the Gupta period, 5th century CE, India

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Statue of seated Buddha from the Gupta period, 5th century CE, India

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This is a poem about a volcano erupting. I chose this mechanism to give the audience an idea of the feelings associated with a volcanic eruption.

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The lonely darkness
swallows up the light of day
nothing is left of the light
but a thin pin prick

The pin prick opens
the dark is lit up
a fire burns bright
the flames reach up
with burning hands

Three silver rings
thick and thin
a circle of gold
bubble in the fire

As gold liquid flows
the thunder is heard
as grey light is lit up
from the volcano

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005. A Volcano Erupts Poem by Jaden Knight - Poem Hunter

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The lonely darkness swallows up the light of daynothing is left of the light but a thin pin prick The pin prick opensthe dark is lit upa fire burns brightthe flames reach upwith burning hands Three silver rings thick and thina circle of gold bubble in the fire As gold liquid flowsthe thunder is heardas grey light is lit upfrom the volcano

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This is what the earthquakes before the volcano eruption sound like. I chose this mechanism to give the audience a sense of being in Turkey when the volcano is about to erupt.

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This is a picture of modern day Turkey, displaying the double peaked volcano. I chose this to to show the audience what the volcanos looked like to the people who lived there.

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Level VII, Çatalhöyük, Turkey, Wall painting: Watercolor copy      c.6150 BCE

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Level VII, Çatalhöyük, Turkey, Wall painting: Watercolor copy      c.6150 BCE