Mazatlán, Sin., The northern cultures of Mexico did have astronomical knowledge, so eclipses were important as they were part of the cosmic cycles, which are represented in various petroglyphs located in Las Labradas and other sites in Sinaloa, he said. the archaeologist Víctor Joel Santos Ramírez.
He referred to the fact that pre-Hispanic worldviews perhaps did not leave records of eclipses, but in the engravings of what was happening in the celestial vault, which were not isolated situations, since the Sun, the Moon, planets like Venus, as well as human and geometric figures, which are integrated elements, for their cosmogony that produced other cycles that could lead them to predict astronomical phenomena.
The researcher in the Las Labradas archaeological zone offered the conference Eclipses in pre-Hispanic times
to groups of campers from various places in the country and the world. He explained that this phenomenon will occur again at this point for about 300 years.
He added that Las Labradas was a cultural border between pre-Hispanic groups, since it was found that the time of contact of the Totorame group extended from the south of Sinaloa to the Piaxtla River, Elota, near this place.
He specified that this site, which is located on the coast, is considered a place of rituals, a term coined by the archaeologist Víctor Turner that defines the rituality of the communities, or of something that is dying
to give way to the stages of life, the cycle of agriculture, from puberty to adulthood until reaching the death of a planet or the renewal of the Sun and the Moon.
Santos Ramírez maintained the significance of the choice made by the pre-Hispanic groups in Las Labradas to make exceptional and large rock engravings on stones (about 700) located on the beach and the sea.