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Cast Bronze
67 × 48 × 33 cm
Lamanai is an ancient Maya city in present-day Belize whose name translates as "submerged crocodile," sacred to the Maya as a place where the ferocious power of the crocodile deity connected the earthly and underworld realms. The entwined wrestling figures — one carrying the other in a grip of almost ritual intensity — suggest the sacred struggle between mortal strength and the forces that would pull it under.
Cast Bronze
67 × 48 × 33 cm
Lamanai is an ancient Maya city in present-day Belize whose name translates as "submerged crocodile," sacred to the Maya as a place where the ferocious power of the crocodile deity connected the earthly and underworld realms. The entwined wrestling figures — one carrying the other in a grip of almost ritual intensity — suggest the sacred struggle between mortal strength and the forces that would pull it under.