Why sculpt the Olmec stone head?

Do you have to say why everything in the world?

Some of the Olmec buildings of La Ben Tower appear to have been found in their original locations and have not been moved: the megalithic statues, the throne stones, and the stone columns were all built in the religious quarters of La Ben Tower, or in the royal palace, or in the nearby public areas. Others have apparently been moved, perhaps because they have been repurposed, or because of corrosion, or because they have been displaced by sliding.

It seems that the Olmecs deliberately placed these statues in a certain position as a certain scene to commemorate or recreate some historical events or myths and legends. Most of the megalithic statues are part of these scenes. These may be statues representing chieftains or emperors and have a certain political significance.

The Omek head statue was rescued by the poet Kamala from the ruins of Ravenda. It takes on the face of an old man with a broad, flat nose and thick lips that reveal two rows of solid, neatly cleft teeth. The look on the old man's face showed an ancient, deep wisdom.

The two eyes gaze at eternity, fearless, like the sphinx crouching in Kisha, Egypt.

It is carved out of a single block of basalt, with a circumference of 22 feet, a height of almost 8 feet, and a weight of tons. The facial features revealed by this portrait undoubtedly belong to the black.

The Omek head statue presents a "real" black man, with extreme precision in the depiction of facial features. How these sturdy, good-looking African men appeared in Central America 3,000 years ago, scholars still can't say why. We also have no way of knowing whether these heads were carved 3,000 years ago.

In the same pit, archaeologists also found charcoal chips. Through carbon-14 identification, they were only able to date the charcoal shavings. The process of deducing the true history of the statue is much more complicated.

Like other Mesoamericans, the Olmecs saw the parts of the body as the building blocks of the universe. They put most of their attention into the details and embellishment of the head, which may have symbolized the center, believed to be the realm of the sky or gods. Melgar, the discoverer of the stone statue, published two articles speculating on the significance of the statue of the giant and the ethnic group to which it was carved.

At the time, cultural diffusion theories were prevalent in academic circles, and scholars believed that pre-Columbian Native Americans were by no means intelligent or capable of creating large-scale and brilliant works of art such as the Olmec head. Influenced by this, Melgar assumed that the design and carver of the statue must have been an Old World immigrant, and that the carving should have been made of Africans, especially Ethiopians.

It was not until 1939 that archaeologist Sterling began to study the Omec culture, and the information about the statue was reorganized. Sterling Tray's research in Stethopotes, La Venta, San Lorenzo, and elsewhere made the Olmec culture famous in the academic world, and his articles were published in the well-read National Geographic magazines. In his 1976 book, The Son Before Columbus, Van Setima argued for the "black race."

Africans made many voyages to the Americas long before Columbus discovered them, and thus founded, or at least strongly influenced the early civilizations of Central and South America. By extension, the Olmec civilization was probably created by Africans. Such assertions, while not accepted by professional scholars, have become the basic thesis of the contemporary Africanocentric movement in North America.

According to Vansétima, Africa-centric revisionist historians claim that "all of the world's early civilizations, including ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Europe, and the Americas, were mostly created by, or at least inspired by, black people." There are five main types of evidence cited by Vansettima and Yona and other authors:

Writing of different periods in the old world; the "black" features of the Olmec's giant stone heads; The Olmec mounds share many archaeological similarities with the stone pyramids of Egypt and Nubia; Plants native to one hemisphere appear in another; The custom of mummification also emerged in the Americas.

Another scholar, Hasriviera, and his colleagues have recently devoted a full discussion on this topic. Hasrivela and her colleagues scrutinized each piece of evidence and refuted it one by one. Hasrevi et al. argue that because the Olmec culture occupies a very important place in the history of Mesoamerican civilization, it is not surprising that African-centrists would have the idea that the Olmecs belong to Africans.

Ironically, the argument they are arguing for reinforces another false racial argument, which is that the Native Americans are relegated to an inferior race, and that they cannot develop the same great cultural achievements as the stupid old world peoples. Arguments aside, regardless of the ethnicity to which the Olmec megaliths belong or what their exact purpose or meaning, they are undoubtedly some of the most spectacular megalithic carvings in the world.

The stone statue of Xu Beihuai Wudo Olmec is engraved with symbols resembling hieroglyphs, but it has not yet been deciphered. However, the use and significance of these statues can be judged by the clear content and background of these statues, as well as the legends of the Mesoamerican people, who later have a more detailed historical record. Matthew Sterling, a stone statue excavator, believes that these huge stone heads are portraits of some prominent figures.

Another inference is that they represent warriors or golfers. However, most people believe that they are statues of chiefs or rulers. The unique ornamentation on each avatar's hat, including hides, tassels, feathers, claws, strings, and mirrors, indicates that the head was a ruler or a member of a royal family.

A striking statue of a tribal ruler in Mesoamerica was later discovered, called "The Immortal Maya". Its cultural roots date back to the Olmec period. This discovery adds strong evidence to the claim that the Olmec stone statue is a statue of a leader or ruler.

Regarding the Olmec giant stone statue, it has been suggested that the armor-like hat on the head was a sacred helmet of the Kujichang Sho Daii Ming Qing Clan, in which the losing side was beheaded by Xunna, and this head may have been related to the sacrifice of the competition, or it was a memento to pay tribute to the dead.

Each statue follows a uniform pattern: a middle-aged man, a plump and intimidating face, a wide, flat nose, plump lips, and seemingly frowning eyes with epicanthal wrinkles. Each head wears an armor-like hat with a strap tied around the chin.

Several of them also have earplugs, a sign of the prominence of ancient Mesoamerica.