Blood bath
Blood didn’t just serve as food for the gods, it also strengthened and regenerated them…
Today we bring you this WIP in ultra-realistic 3D of the priests that bathed Mictlantecuhtli in blood.
In pre-Columbian codices, it is narrated that a ritual offered to such god of the underworld consisted of parts of a body to be opened, such as: ears, tongues, thighs, wrists and/or calves, to fill containers with blood.
They were carried to the priests so they could bathe the image of Mictlantecuhtli with this red liquid to be able to ask, for the whole town, health for the ill or rest for the dead.
Today we bring you this WIP in ultra-realistic 3D of the priests that bathed Mictlantecuhtli in blood.
In pre-Columbian codices, it is narrated that a ritual offered to such god of the underworld consisted of parts of a body to be opened, such as: ears, tongues, thighs, wrists and/or calves, to fill containers with blood.
They were carried to the priests so they could bathe the image of Mictlantecuhtli with this red liquid to be able to ask, for the whole town, health for the ill or rest for the dead.