solarpunklifer commented on The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
El Lanzon
"A well-lit replica of the stela, often assumed to represent a god who is also the axis mundi, or a central pillar connecting the polar ends of a shamanic universe, has pride of place in Peru's Museo de la Nacion; but the 3,000-year-old original still resides at the heart of a darkened maze, illuminated by thin slats, where no single viewer could ever grasp the totality of its form or meaning."