The Olmec Culture Analysis

The Olmec culture has associated their art with the jaguar. To them, the jaguar is a powerful and mysterious animal that they would worship. Infantile sculptures that were created by the Olmec were found in Mesoamerica. The sculptures are those of naked infants where the sex is usually not denoted. Some of the sculptures can be found with feline characteristics such as that of a jaguar’s mouth. There is speculation that the mouths of the figures appear to be of jaguars due to the similarity between pouting mouths of Indian infants and jaguars. The infantile sculptures seem to also have abnormal physical traits, such as a missing lower jaw or a neck that is almost nonexistent. This article provides more information towards the themes in the