Crossed eyes among the maya

One has the idea that the mayans believed that the strabismus was something beautiful and aesthetic, however, it could be something much more important than that.

Strabismus may have helped the maya to generate three-dimensional effects in their structures, which could be used to force visions, or access to altered states of consciousness.
About your nose or bizca your eyes seeing the picture 2 to see the three-dimensional effect of the arc of Labná.
In our culture it is obsolete the vision of the eyes
converged and is used in recreational contexts, and purely didactic, to explain the
the functioning of the human brain. However, for the maya, this has a different character
in the pre-hispanic past, because they had a very distinct form of to perceive and utilize the
phenomenon. For them the question of the crossed eyes and the vision strabismic was an intrinsic part of their worldview and a way of adding another layer of meaning to their artistic productions. ©️ Credits of the first illustration to whom it may concern. Credit information and images 2 and 3 to Walter Omar Schwendener and his study on ‘the Meaning of the Crossed Eyes Within the Worldview of pre-Hispanic’