A plurality of civilisations and worldviews creating Mesoamerican art is stating the obvious. Even Egyptian dynasties moved their focus to the Aten from a polytheistic pantheon relocating their entire capital, changed their minds, got subsumed into later Greco/eastern Mediterranean dynastic polities etc. Even had a pre-dynastic pharaoh named Wash
Just because a long term overview might suggest stasis, the reality isn’t necessarily static eg Roman or christian art
Myths are too reductive in and of themselves to filter such a broad realm of artistic expressions too. Think of a vast dating chronology of timeframes needed, geographical scope/spread of cultures in the o.p. . Social organisation and social structures necessitate craft guilds, master craft workers, all the way to ’sweeping up‘, add the influence of religions, power brokers, feudalist competition, failed harvests
We think primarily about temple architecture, of big sites, yet the bulk of this material culture is tied to personal adornments. Grave goods can inform you about shifting designs and the geographical distribution of art styles as much as a civic or religious hub can
Isn’t there a thread on ‘geotrauma’ or a close approximation
@version ? Can’t find the correct word search, as people’s first thought re anything Mesoamerican is mass blood letting