神像（地球） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	神像（地球）
品名（英）	Deity Figure (Zemí)
入馆年号	1979年，1979.206.1209
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1200 - 公元 1500
创作地区	多米尼加共和国（？）（Dominican Republic (?)）
分类	石雕（Stone-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 24 英寸 × 宽 7 1/4 英寸 × 深 8 7/8 英寸 (61 × 18.4 × 22.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这张由细粒砂岩制成的zemí图像很可能被用作一年中在规定时间举行的替身仪式，涉及一种被称为cohoba的植物entheogen。塔伊诺人创造性的雕塑表达与精神、仪式和政治权力交织在一起。西班牙的记载描述了zemí人物是如何被用作支架、圣物箱或个人装饰的 Zemí（或cemí）是泰诺人使用的一个术语，泰诺人是欧洲接触前居住在安的列斯群岛的各种社会，在语言上与甜味相似 Zemí不是指物体或图像，而是指与神和祖先有关的非物质、精神和重要力量。西班牙人记录了几个已知的zemí身份，其中一些与考古图像有关一种磨碎的致幻粉末或糊状物将被放置在看台顶部，仪式参与者将通过鼻烟管吸入升麻。这种仪式行为的影响在zemí本身就可以看到：这个人物消瘦的表情可能代表一个禁食的人，而随着吸入这些物质，眼睛会变宽。
介绍（英）	This zemí image created out of a fine-grained sandstone was likely used as a stand in ceremonies performed at prescribed times throughout the year involving a vegetal entheogen known as cohoba. Creative sculptural expression for the Taíno peoples was intertwined with spirituality, ceremony, and political power. Spanish accounts describe how zemí figures were used as stands, reliquaries, or personal adornment. Zemí (or cemí) is a term used by Taíno peoples, the diverse societies that inhabited the Antilles archipelago before European contact, that linguistically relates to a quality akin to sweetness. Zemí refers not to an object or image but to an immaterial, spiritual, and vital force pertaining to deities and ancestors. There are several known zemí identities recorded by the Spanish, some of which have been linked to archaeological images. A ground-up hallucinogenic powder or paste would be placed on the top of the stand, and ceremonial participants would inhale the cohoba through snuff tubes. The effects of such ritual acts are visible in the zemí itself: the emaciated look of the figure may represent someone who had been fasting, and widened eyes would have accompanied the inhalation of such substances.