15.49

This giant urn from Conchopata is decorated with variations of the disembodied mythical profile head, including feline/human-faced and avian-faced heads. Two Anadenanthera colubrina symbols appear in the crown in each image, one in the top and one in the back. It seems significant that this urn, like some other religious art from Conchopata, has numerous Anadenanthera colubrina symbols, while some objects (15.48) have few or none at all. Religion in the Huari sphere seems (as at Tiahuanaco) to have included two types of experiences, one more based on hallucinogenic trance characteristic of shamanism and the other more sober and doctrinal in nature.