Sipan has provided a rich set of gold and turquoise artifacts from this culture.
Jeffrey Quilter explored a "revolt of the objects" in the later works of this culture, divided into five distinct phases. This culture's owl god usually is shown holding a war club, although he is rarely depicted in actual battle scenes, and their pantheon was very similar to their contemporaries, the Cupisnique. Ai Apaec is probably the most important of one class of gods in this culture, gods who usually hold a knife in one hand and a severed head in another and are appropriately known as the decapitator gods. Their religion likely centered around sun and moon gods, as evidenced by the massive Temples of the Sun and Moon at Trujillo, and the so-called Lord of ? Sipan has provided a rich set of gold and turquoise artifacts from this culture. Also known for pottery depicting exaggerated sexual acts, FTP, identify this pre-Columbian civilization lasting from roughly 100 AD to 800 AD in modern-day Peru.
Jeffrey Quilter explored a "revolt of the objects" in the later works of this culture, divided into five distinct phases.
{Moche} [or {Mochica} or {Proto}-{Chimu} or Early {Chimu}]