Diquís Raptor Pendant
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Diquís Raptor Pendant

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This gold pendant from the Diquís culture of southern Costa Rica (700–1550) depicts a stylized bird of prey with pronounced beak and curved wings. Such figures symbolized spiritual flight, strength, and shamanic vision. The raptor’s role as a sky messenger linked earthly and divine realms in pre-Columbian cosmology.