The incredible detail in Moche ceramics could lend to the fact that they served as a sort of didactic model. Older generations could pass down general knowledge about reciprocity and incorporation to younger generations through these veristic portrayals. These sex pots could teach about procreation, sexual pleasure, cultural and social norms, a sort of immortality, and transfer of life and souls, transformation, and the relationship between the two cyclical views of nature and life.
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