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CACH AVENDANO, Eric Orlando. Las canoas de jade del sur de Veracruz como elemento iconográfico olmeca previo a la odisea del Dios del Maíz maya. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2005, vol.26, pp.67-89. ISSN 0185-2574.

In this article I try as main objective to review some Olmec jade canoes from Mexico's southeast, which belong to some private Mexican and foreign collections and some museums. My argument points out how these canoes represent some complex of ideas related to the ancient Olmec myth of creation that involves the God of Maize. I review some readings from epigraphist coming from Maya art devices of the Classic period; I'm retaking ancient stories about the creation of the world made it by the young God of Maize. These tales include the canoe as vehicle of the god. In this context of ideas, it is possible to me to show the continuity between Olmec and Maya religious ideologies and to offer an interpretation of a sign carved out in one canoe of jade from Campeche.