Cupisnique

The Cupisnique culture ( or Cupinisque, Cupisinique ) was a pre-Columbian culture, which flourished from about BC 1500 to 1000 at what is now the Pacific coast of Peru. It has a distinctive style of mud bricks, but shows in art style and religious symbols in common with the Chavin culture, which inhabited the same region at a later time. The ratios between Chavin and Cupisnique are unclear. Alana Cordy - Collins, for example, supports the theory that the Cupisnique culture 1000-200 BC survived, which can be directly associated with the time of Chavin. For Izumi Shimada the Cupisnique are possibly the ancestors of the Mochica and have no connections to the Chavin culture. Anna C. Roosevelt reported that the Chavin culture was dominated by the style of the Cupisnique.

Many Henkel vases have been found in tombs in Cupisnique Valley, which gave the name of this culture. The Peruvian archaeologist Rafael Larco Hoyle (1901-1966) was the first to distinguish the Cupisnique culture of the Chavin culture, which has been suspected as the founder of pre-Columbian cultures.

Cult

2008 Temple of Cupisnique was discovered in Lambayeque Valley, with pictures of a spider god, associated with rainfall, hunting and war. The image of the spider god shows a spider with the mouth of a big cat and the beak of a bird.

Characteristic style

Cupisnique ceramic is almost always dark and monochrome, black, brown or dark red. These shades are generated by a special baking process ( redox reaction ). Your " sham massive " aspect and the carefully polished surface give the appearance of stone, basalt or obsidian, decorated with raised, incised or engraved designs.