Travel and discover the Kawá Sísiki cave, recently named archaeological zone in the state of Guerrero, which captures the Olmec aesthetics in cave paintings.
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If you are passionate about rural tourism, adventure and pre-Hispanic culture, you will be interested in learning more about the Kawa Sisiki cave, place named in tu’un savi or tongue mixtecas the “cave of the game or fire”.
Figures five meters high painted over 30 meters long, were recorded for the first time in 1988 by the researcher Samuel Villela Flores and published in the Archeology Magazine in 1989, under the title of “new Olmec rock testimony in eastern Warrior”.
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Two characters of Olmec aesthetics are painted on these motifs, with white, ocher, yellow and black colors. The first in profile, with a white face and a helmet-like headdress, is dressed as a jaguar, where the feline’s spots and claws can be seen.
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Background
Although people from the Guerrero High Mountain community were already familiar with the findings from previous times, it was Professor Eliseo Campos who commented to Samuel Villela about “some paintings” in a cave near Cerro Cruzco de Zitlala, like himself. Samuel recounts.
The grottoes of the cave became a large mural to capture in different periods of time the strokes that reflect Olmec figures, the oldest being (pre-Olmec).
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The figures are distinguished by a set of vertical bars within a red oval, and which are apparently linked to celestial observation events.
Location of the Kawa Sísiki cave
The 15-meter-high cave, with a 57-meter-long mouth and 24-meter depth, is located in the middle of Cauaná hill, 100 meters from the gap that leads to the town of Ocoapa.
Fun fact about Kawa Sísiki
The panoramic view from the cave is privileged, because you can see in the distance, from a rugged horizon, the top of the Popocatépetl volcano.
At present, the Kawa Sisiqui cave It is the seat of rituals by the community and is a place consecrated to fertility, agriculture and the observation of the stars, since before the arrival of the Olmec culture in Guerrero.
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Dahida Gutierrez Communicologist; admirer of the colorful and talkative Mexico that exalts itself with traditions and its people.