Pottery. Bat-God: pottery with red paint. Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900 AD. (A branch of Aztec cu Artist: Unknown.

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Camazotz, Bat-God, pottery with red paint, Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900. The cult of Camazotz began around 100 BCE among the Zapotec Indians in what is the modern-day Mexican state of Oaxaca. In Zapotec culture, the bat was associated with night, death, and sacrifice. The Zapotec civilization, a branch of Aztec culture, was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica.

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