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Representational dance???    : )

On top is the lid to the sarcophagus (tomb) of Pacal, the great Mayan king of Palenque.  When it was first discovered during the fifties, a bunch of theories sprouted up about it depicting a space craft lifting off.  Now, with better understanding of Mayan glyphs, historians assume

“the lid to King Pacal’s sarcophagus depicts his mystical journey from this life. He is shown at the moment of death descending beneath the heavens, falling past the World Tree and into the jaws of the “Sun Monster”, which will take him to the ancestral Otherworld.”

At any rate, I was looking at dance pics on the web, and the Parson Dance photo below immediately reminded me of Pacal’s sarcophagus.