Red Handprints, Tulum

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Ibolya Horváth
by Jaime
published on 14 February 2020
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Red handprints can be found on the walls of a number of Maya sites and are associated with the creator god Itzamna whose seven-fingered hands were red-hot to facilitate healing and who, naturally, became associated with doctors.

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