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The Casas Grandes World The article entitled, The Casas Grandes World: Tlalocs, Kachinas, Sacred Bundles, and Related Symbolism in the Southwest and Mesoamerica, has introduced many similarities between the Southwest and Mesoamerica cultures. The article elaborates these similarities between the two cultures by emphasizing on the cultural beliefs, traditional sacrifices, religious practices and even the art paintings these two cultures have developed within the years and how evidence show that these art influences have carried on from one culture distinctively to another culture, Southwest and Mesoamerica. In this essay, I will be discussing the similarities involving these two cultures by describing who Tlaloc was and what role the deity played in Mesoamerica and who the Kachinas were and what importance they brought to the Southwest. Also in this essay, I will include discussions on sacred bundles, which was a way of burying the dead. I will relate this topic to traditional sacrifices both cultures practiced within their time period. For years researchers have debated their thoughts on the similarities between Mesoamerica and Southwest. I will discuss researchers beliefs from their points of views and how they support their arguments. Models were one element used by researchers to explain the common traits between Mesoamerica and Southwest. We will see that theses models begin to be disfavored and new ways of explaining the similarities come into development. I will help separate these disfavored elements from the newly formed evidence researchers have found during their time. The article has few disagreements on the cultural similarities between both cultures and leans more towards how Southwest and Mesoamerica have common traits.
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