These are craved stone images of Ecuador on display in a downtown museum in Quito, Ecuador. I do not begin to know the meaning of all of them, but another museum in the city displays hundreds of them. Most relate to getting into the "after life," and when you read about how the ancients of Ecuador did that, it sounds uncannily like Christianity. The country must maintain some sense of these images in that there are others I hope to post later that show specially craved pans in which to bake bread. The pans are used on All Souls Day, the religious day in early November that celebrates or honors the dead.
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