Between the 6th and 8th centuries ad people of the southern Andean civilization of Tiwanaku (Tiahaunaco) built a monolithic monument known as the Gateway of the Sun. The lintel stone of this monument shows the figure of a god holding two staffs. Rays around his head end in circles or the heads of pumas, and he is surrounded by running or kneeling figures. Ruins of the Tiwanaku culture are located on the Bolivian altiplano (high plains) near La Paz.
Tom Owen Edmunds/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York
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