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@patrickkapty.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 6:45 PM

Storm God Mosaic Mask
jade, shell, wooden base
c. 200-600 CE
Maya culture
Guatemala

#handmade #precolumbian #carved #jade #shell #wood #mosaic #mask #stormgod #art #ancientart #Maya #culture #Guatemala #prehispanic #mesoamerica #MayanArt #precolumbianjade #burial #afterlife #religion #belief #elite

Storm God Mosaic Mask
Maya. Guatemala. c. AD 200-600.
jadeite and shell tesserae set over a wooden core with resin.
Collection: The Al Thani Collection.
Now on display at the Hôtel de la
Marine, Paris.
Look closely at the image: spiral eyes, broad nose, round earspools and a parted mouth lined with orange shell. That orange is spondylus, a Pacific spiny oyster.
Conservators studying a closely related jade mosaic mask from a royal tomb at Chochkitam, Guatemala, noted that spondylus turns warm and flesh-like when backlit, making the face seem to come alive. That mask lay on a king's chest and has been read as a manifestation of the storm god.

@dustcircle.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:35 PM

Urn with #jaguars and #skulls:
A 1,400-year-old #burial container depicting a #deceased ruler's arrival to the #Maya underworld

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@patrickkapty.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:27 PM

The Acrobat of Colima Vessel
terracotta
c. 200 BCE to 300 CE
Colima culture
Western Mexico, Colima

#handmade #terracotta #vessel #AcrobatofColima #Colima #culture #precolumbian #mesoamerican #pottery #precolumbianpottery #acrobat #art #ancientart #sculpture #shafttombtradition #burial #afterlife

Dating to c. 200 BC-AD 300, this remarkable ceramic vessel from Colima, western Mexico, takes the form of a male acrobat performing an extraordinary contortion. Rather than simply decorating the vessel with a human figure, the ancient artist transformed the acrobat's body into the vessel itself, with his inverted head resting below his torso and his legs dramatically curved above him. The sculpture captures a fleeting display of flexibility, balance and physical skill in permanent clay and reflects the lively interest in the human body characteristic of the ceramic traditions of ancient West Mexico.
The vessel is today held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as part of the Michael C.
Rockefeller Memorial Collection.
The pre-Columbian Colima culture was an ancient Mesoamerican society that thrived in western Mexico (primarily in the modern state of Colima, as well as parts of Jalisco and Michoacán) from roughly 300 BCE to 600 CE, and is famous for its rich Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition.
The people lived in small agricultural villages and regional chiefdoms rather than massive imperial centers. They farmed maize, beans, squash, and chili peppers in fertile volcanic valleys.
Unlike central Mexican groups, they built modest structures on platforms using river boulders and wattle-and-daub, though regional centers like La Campana featured larger ceremonial mounds.
Colima culture is globally celebrated for its burnished, reddish-brown terracotta pottery. Artisans crafted hollow ceramic figurines with expressive, clean lines and dynamic forms.

@no7er.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:31 PM

Lost and Forgotten, Digital artwork, 2024
#art #digitalart #fall #autumn #autumnleaves #leaves #lost #forgotten #murder #death #horror #horrorart #fallhorror #autumnhorror #farewell #end #sad #skeleton #creepyart #creepy #burial #sleep

@deadparentswhatnow.com Oct 3, 2026, 6:55 PM

Living in South Carolina? Here are the legal methods of disposition in your state as of October 2026.

#deathpositive #deatheducation #funeral #burial #cremation #aquamation #humancomposting #greenburial #southcarolina

An illustration of a ribcage is just visible above a black background. On top of that, green and white text reads: What can you do with a dead body in South Carolina? Traditional burial (check); Green burial (check); Fire cremation (check); Water cremation (check); Human composting (X); deadparentswhatnow.com

@roundmidnight1926.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:30 PM

🎧 Burial
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#burial #ghosthardware #UK #dubstep

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@globalvisibility.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 1:13 PM

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@dailynorthern.com Sep 29, 2026, 7:00 PM

Klaksvik cemetery expansion will add 250 burial plots #burial #infrastructure #Klaksvík

@patrickkapty.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 3:32 PM

Dancing Dogs
ceramic with slip
c. 200 BCE to 200 CE
Colima culture
Colima, Mexico

#handmade #ceramic #dogs #sculpture #ancientart #art #precolumbian #ColimaCulture #Colima #Mexico #Mesoamerica #ancientsculpture #dogsculpture #Xoloitzcuintli #shafttomb #burial #afterlife #guides #hairless #canine

The Colima culture was a prominent pre-Columbian society in western Mexico that flourished roughly from 300 BCE to 600 CE.
Thrived in the fertile valleys and coastal plains of the modern Mexican state of Colima and surrounding areas.
Roots trace back to the early Capacha culture (around 1500 BCE), with its main artistic peak occurring during the Late Pre-Classic and Classic periods (300 BCE – 600 CE).
Known for deep, bottle-shaped underground burial chambers containing rich ceramic grave goods meant to accompany the dead.
Famous for expressive, smooth redware and burnished terracotta effigies of hairless dogs (Xoloitzcuintli), which were believed to guide souls to the underworld.

@deadparentswhatnow.com Sep 26, 2026, 6:55 PM

Living in Rhode Island? Here are the legal methods of disposition in your state as of September 2026.

#deathpositive #deatheducation #funeral #burial #cremation #aquamation #humancomposting #greenburial #rhodeisland

An illustration of a ribcage is just visible above a black background. On top of that, green and white text reads: What can you do with a dead body in Rhode Island? Traditional burial (check); Green burial (check); Fire cremation (check); Water cremation (X); Human composting (X); deadparentswhatnow.com

@rrrobyn.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 12:11 PM

Goosebump business from Otik. Of course heavily influenced by burial but still unique and fresh:

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#otik #house #london #burial #deep

@trans-future-radio.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 5:58 PM

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#tricky + #southrakkascrew + #portishead + #massiveattack + #djshadow + #djkoolherc + #burial + #meatbeatmanifesto + #coldcut + #innerzoneorchestra / + #intastella + #angeliquekidjo + #bushcraft + #garbage + #elviscostello + #massiveattack + #nearlygod

@archaeothanato.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 8:46 AM

Fanny Bocquentin @cnrs.fr UMR Temps 8068 (Nanterre, France) then gave a fascinating lecture on "From #Burial to Ancestors: Unveiling the Invisible and reconstructing Social Dynamics in #Epipaleolithic #SouthwesternAsia"

@archaeohawke.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:16 PM

#TombTuesday
Bodowyr Burial Chamber is a Neolithic #burial chamber made of a few large stacked stones (also known as a dolmen or a passage grave) in a farmer's field on Ynys Mon (Anglesey). It is located at Bodowyr Farm. #WALES
#Archaeology 🪨

@deadparentswhatnow.com Sep 20, 2026, 6:55 PM

Living in Pennsylvania? Here are the legal methods of disposition in your state as of September 2026.

#deathpositive #deatheducation #funeral #burial #cremation #aquamation #humancomposting #greenburial #pennsylvania

An illustration of a ribcage is just visible above a black background. On top of that, green and white text reads: What can you do with a dead body in Pennsylvania? Traditional burial (check); Green burial (check); Fire cremation (check); Water cremation (X); Human composting (X); deadparentswhatnow.com

@james-rowan-photo.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 5:53 AM

"TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH", (viewed from the United Empire Loyalist #Burial Site) No.1, #Cornwall, #Ontario, #Canada. 09-10-26

🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan

* constructed: 1868-1875

#photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #architecture #history #church #stone #window #tower #cross #headstone #GothicRevival #Anglican

@james-rowan-photo.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 5:49 AM

"TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH", (viewed from the United Empire Loyalist #Burial Site) No.2, #Cornwall, #Ontario, #Canada. 09-10-26

🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan

* constructed: 1868-1875

#photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #architecture #history #church #stone #window #tower #cross #headstone #GothicRevival #Anglican

@4quazulu.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 7:32 PM

Trump Tower #Tbilisi launches with #EricTrump on Zoom and #Israeli partner in $2B development
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#flood #epic #tale #kings #crown #throne #crooks

@lumluxart.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 6:41 AM

Burial Worked Outside the Grid

In his 2007 interview with The Wire, Burial confirmed that he made Untrue in Sound Forge, editing waveforms without a conventional...

#Burial #Untrue #UKGarage #MusicProduction #SoundForge

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@james-rowan-photo.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 9:07 PM

"UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST BURIAL SITE", Trinity Anglican Church, #Cornwall, #Ontario, #Canada. 09-10-26

🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan

💀 "IN MEMORIAM OF ANN COLRIDGE" 💀

#photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #architecture #history #grave #memorial #headstone #cemetery #burial #weathered #texture #cobwebs #monochrome

Inscription at bottom reads: "LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID"