ANCIENT SCULPTURES OFTEN DEPICT SYMBOLS OF BEAUTY.

INFERTILITY.

BUT A NEW EXHIBIT AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART GIVES VISITORS A GLIMPSE OF A SOCIETY, MEXICO WHERE WOMEN HELD HIGH POWER POSITIONS.

THE EXHIBITION IS CALLED H AND WOMEN GODDESSES WARRIORS AND GOVERNORS.

>> LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT THERE WAS A CIVILIZATION KNOWN AS THE WEST, A CA.

>> THAT ARE FROM THAT REGION OF MAKE EQUAL AND THE WEST PICK UP.

PEOPLE HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE HAVE THEIR OWN TRADITIONS.

THEY EXISTED FOR ABOUT 3,000 YEARS.

I THINK THE PART THAT IS MOST SURPRISING ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION AND THE WEST CIVILIZATION IS THAT WOMEN DID HAVE A PLACE OF POWER IN THEIR SOCIETY WASN'T FREQUENT.

WASN'T ALL THE TIME.

BUT OBVIOUSLY THEY WERE THERE.

WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE OF THE SCULPTURES, LIKE AS SHE'S KNOWN IN MAY, HE CALL, THOUGH SOME OF FOLKS HERE AT THE MUSEUM NICKNAMED HER LUCHAN OR WE JUST LIKE THAT AS A BADASS.

SHE'S A VERY UNIQUE PIECE THAT WAS FOUND ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO.

SHE'S NEVER BEEN DISPLAYED.

THE THING THAT'S SO UNIQUE ABOUT HER IS THAT SHE'S A WOMAN.

SHE HAS THE HEARING.

SHE HAS THE TRADITIONAL WANTS THAT HAVE THAT THAT WOMEN WOULD WEAR.

SHE'S GOT A NECKLACE, BUT SHE ALSO HAS KNEE PADS AND SHE HAS THE HIP GUARDS.

THAT WAS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORN BY BALLPLAYERS.

WHAT SHE'S TELLS US ABOUT THAT TIME PERIOD IS THAT WERE A PART OF DIFFERENT.

RULES AND A PART OF DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF SOCIETY.

IT WASN'T AS SEGREGATED PERHAPS AS WE THINK IT WAS RIGHT.

WE OFTEN TIMES IMAGINE THE WOMEN STAYING AT HOME DOING DOMESTIC CHORES?

WELL, HERE WE CLEARLY HAVE SOMEBODY WHO IS OUT THERE KEEPING THE WORLD SAFE, KEEPING THE WORLD GOING AND APPEASING THE GODS.

>> MUSEUM OFFICIALS TELL US MOST OF THE BIG SCULPTURES WERE DISCOVERED BY FARMERS WORKING IN THE FIELDS.

I MEAN, THAT 6 DURING A CAVE.

IMAGINE HOW THEY FELT.

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