Detail on the Palace of the Governors
This place is amazing. These faces with their elephant-like trunks are representations of the rain god Chaak. Here at Uxmal, the trunks turn up - at Kabah they're shaped exactly the same but they turn down. I'm wondering if it has more to do with the reconstruction done or the original design. I'll consult Catherwood and find out, and post a comparison link here if my guess pans out.
Complex, richly varied styling from Mayan baroque to geometric Mitla stone parquet basketry, to an almost austere sort of lithic Mondrian abstractionism - I'll bet people complained about the city wasting their money on "That kind of Art"
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