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  CULTURE 
  OF 
  N. 
  COAST 
  OF 
  PERU 
  — 
  LARCO 
  HOYLE 
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  lascivious 
  acts 
  between 
  one 
  man 
  and 
  two 
  women; 
  lascivious 
  acts 
  

   between 
  two 
  men 
  and 
  one 
  woman; 
  and 
  unnatural 
  positions 
  in 
  coitus. 
  

   Some 
  of 
  these 
  ceramics 
  are 
  definitely 
  made 
  with 
  humorous 
  intent; 
  

   others 
  may 
  carry 
  moral 
  implications, 
  such 
  as 
  scenes 
  which 
  depict 
  the 
  

   physical 
  and 
  moral 
  destruction 
  of 
  a 
  sexual 
  pervert. 
  There 
  seems 
  to 
  

   be 
  no 
  particular 
  reason 
  why 
  the 
  vessels 
  were 
  placed 
  in 
  graves; 
  for 
  

   instance, 
  accompanying 
  an 
  infant 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  months, 
  a 
  vase 
  was 
  found 
  

   representing 
  fellatio. 
  

  

  IDEOGRAPHIC 
  SYSTEM 
  

  

  The 
  Mochicas 
  had 
  an 
  ideographic 
  system. 
  Beans 
  were 
  indented 
  

   with 
  straight, 
  curved, 
  broken, 
  and 
  parallel 
  lines, 
  points, 
  circles, 
  

   crosses, 
  etc. 
  in 
  kidney-shaped 
  spaces. 
  Many 
  beans 
  repeat 
  the 
  same 
  

   design, 
  as 
  if 
  conventional 
  meaning 
  were 
  intended. 
  These 
  beans 
  

   were 
  carried 
  in 
  bags 
  by 
  messengers, 
  like 
  the 
  Inca 
  runners, 
  traveling 
  

   over 
  roads. 
  Anthropomorphic 
  deer, 
  falcons, 
  hummingbirds, 
  dragon- 
  

   flies, 
  and 
  centipedes 
  symbolize 
  the 
  messengers. 
  Anthropomorphic 
  

   foxes, 
  vizcachas, 
  and 
  felines 
  symbolize 
  the 
  interpreters 
  and 
  scribes. 
  

   Pictorial 
  representations 
  of 
  these 
  beans 
  occur 
  on 
  pots 
  and 
  textiles, 
  

   the 
  bean 
  being 
  sometimes 
  stylized, 
  sometimes 
  humanized 
  (fig. 
  21, 
  c). 
  

  

  This 
  ideographic 
  system 
  spread 
  throughout 
  ancient 
  Peru, 
  reniform 
  

   ideograms 
  (inspired 
  by 
  the 
  lima 
  bean) 
  being 
  found 
  on 
  textiles 
  and 
  

   ceramics 
  of 
  the 
  Paracas, 
  Nazca, 
  Tiahuanaco, 
  and 
  Lambayeque 
  

   cultures. 
  

  

  The 
  author 
  has 
  found 
  numerous 
  analogies 
  between 
  the 
  Peruvian 
  

   and 
  Mayan 
  ideographic 
  systems, 
  which 
  he 
  is 
  now 
  presenting 
  in 
  detail 
  

   to 
  the 
  archeological 
  profession. 
  

  

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