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This week artifacts from the tombs go on display in New York City's American Museum of Natural History, along with a full-size reproduction of the burial site of a ruler called the Warrior Priest, or the Lord of Sipan. The wealth of information gained from the tombs' contents outshines the dazzling finds. Says archaeologist Walter Alva, director of the Museo Nacional Bruning de Lambayeque, who has overseen the excavation since the first days: "Sipan's importance for science transcends the glitter of the gold...
...Scholars had speculated that these were mythical representations, but imposing regalia and ornaments placed around the 1,700-year-old corpse of the Sipan Lord and found in one of the other tombs gave the ceremonial slayings a grisly new meaning. From his attire, he was recognized as the Warrior Priest and the principal figure in representations of a rite of human sacrifice that held great significance for the Moche. Adorned in gold and with glistening bells, beads and ornaments that shivered at the slightest movement, he must have impressed his subjects as more blindingly radiant than the sun overhead...
Theater: The Woman Warrior is a multicultural spectacle...
...this topic have been talk, talk, talk. So it is startling and satisfying to see a 68-ft.-wide stage crowded with white tigers, monkey kings, acrobats, sword fighters and 18-ft.-tall spirits of wisdom gliding by % serenely as California's Berkeley Repertory Theatre unfolds The Woman Warrior, a version of two visionary coming-of-age novels by Maxine Hong Kingston...
...these rituals, a young warrior, dressed inan animal skin, ritually fights and kills ananimal or person dressed as an animal...