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Spiders and spider decapitators in Moche iconographyessay 2008 • Alva Meneses, Nestor Ignacio
Moche • South America > Central Andes
The tombs excavated at Sipán in the Lambayeque Valley contained representations of spiders and anthropomorphized spider beings. In this document the iconography of spider representations from Cupisnique through Moche times in the northern and souther...