(Please read from the start)
“Metallurgy
Metalworking picked up quickly in the Late Chimú periods.[12] The Chimú worked with metals such as gold, silver, and copper.[25] Some Chimú artisans worked in metal workshops divided into sections for each specialized treatment of metals: plating, gold, stamping, lost-wax, pearl, the watermark, and embossing wooden molds. These techniques produced large variety of objects, such as cups, knives, containers, figurines, bracelets, pins, and crowns. They used arsenic to harden the metals after they were cast. Large-scale smelting took place in a cluster of workshops at Cerro de los Cemetarios.[12] The process starts with ore extracted from mines or a river, which is heated to very high temperatures and then cooled. The result is a group of prills, such as small round sections of copper, in a mass of slag, which are other materials which are not useful for metallurgy. The prills are then extracted by crushing the slag, and then melted together to form ingots, which were fashioned into various items. The Chimú also shaped metals through hammering, as displayed in the image on the right of the silver Chimú beaker. Chimú metalsmiths achieved this technique with simple tools and a single sheet of gold. The artist would first carve a wooden mold. Then they would carefully hammer the paper-thin sheet of gold around the wooden base.
Although copper is found naturally on the coast, it was mostly attained from the highlands in an area about 3 days away.[12] Since most of the copper was imported, it is likely that most of the metal objects that were made were likely very small. The pieces, such as wires, needles, digging stick points, tweezers, and personal ornaments, are consistently small, utilitarian objects of copper or copper bronze.[12] The Tumi is one well-known Chimú work. They also made beautiful ritual costumes of gold compounds with plume headdresses, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and breastplates.”
>> Two comments:
1 – Anons whom are interested should compare the headdresses of the Chimu to the rest we’ve encountered so far, without forgetting that feathers and even florals can be incorporated in them.
2 – I don’t know if anons had noticed when we read about the Chimu textile and the metallurgy: the techniques used, including the spindle and the “hammering” of the metals, they are used in the Med Basin and/or in the areas knowns to be the Craddle of Civilization. So I was wondering if it’s possible for this type of knowledge to have ONE origin: it all came from one source of knowledge.
“Religion
Deities
In Pacasmayo, the Moon deity (Si or Shi) was the greatest divinity. It was believed to be more powerful than the Sun, as it appeared by night and day, and it also controlled the weather and growth of crops. Devotees sacrificed animals and birds to the Moon, as well as their own children on piles of colored cottons with offerings of fruit and chicha. They believed the sacrificed children would become deified and they were usually sacrificed around age five.”
>> It always amazes me how there are a LOT of cultures/civilizations that used to sacrifice children out there in the world, BUT the ONLY ONES whom were persecuted till this day about it are the Phoenicians. Hm wonder why is that?
“The Chimú worshipped Mars (Nor) and Earth (Ghisa) deities, as well as the Sun (Jiang) and the Sea (Ni) deities. Jiang was associated with stones called alaec-pong (cacique stone), which were believed to be ancestors of the people in whose area they stood and sons of the Sun.[3] The Chimú made offerings of maize flour of red ochre to Ni for protection against drowning and bountiful catches of fish.”
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