Funeral urns

The funerary urns are identified by their content and not so much for its context.

Keep in mind that the ceramic pieces are identified by their shape, and then by its use, in this case are converted into funeral urns when we found a dead body inside. You may find a piece very similar to a funerary urn at a funeral, but if there is a corpse inside could not be categorized as funerary urn.

The polls have depictions of various gods, including the jaguar god, the maize god, gods of old, and other figures associated with death and rebirth.

The corpses were placed in position flexed and it was believed that the polls represent a uterus.

The photographs were taken from the site of the museo Popol Vuh.