A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Totonac Penis Piercing Sculpture

When NelumboSkid was recently in El Tajin, near Papantla Mexico (see also Jenna and Dave’s travelblog), at a Totonac archeological site, they snapped a shot of this bas relief of (presumably) a priest doing a genital play piercing or bloodletting ceremony. So maybe if you’re into CBT you’re a reincarnated Totonac priest.

Comments

84 responses to “Totonac Penis Piercing Sculpture”

  1. viscioN Avatar
    viscioN

    His cock is bleeding bricks

  2. viscioN Avatar
    viscioN

    His cock is bleeding bricks

  3. NelumboSkid Avatar

    This was on the side of a ball court, this is depicting the aftereffects of the game (which was very ritualistic…) I suppose I should mention that the Totonacs were subjugated by the Aztecs, not the Maya.

  4. NelumboSkid Avatar

    This was on the side of a ball court, this is depicting the aftereffects of the game (which was very ritualistic…) I suppose I should mention that the Totonacs were subjugated by the Aztecs, not the Maya.

  5. NelumboSkid Avatar

    This was on the side of a ball court, this is depicting the aftereffects of the game (which was very ritualistic…) I suppose I should mention that the Totonacs were subjugated by the Aztecs, not the Maya.

  6. NelumboSkid Avatar

    This was on the side of a ball court, this is depicting the aftereffects of the game (which was very ritualistic…) I suppose I should mention that the Totonacs were subjugated by the Aztecs, not the Maya.

  7. Luzbel Avatar
    Luzbel

    honestly… i thought he was ejaculating in his face at first… dunno why i thought that…

  8. Luzbel Avatar
    Luzbel

    honestly… i thought he was ejaculating in his face at first… dunno why i thought that…

  9. Luzbel Avatar
    Luzbel

    honestly… i thought he was ejaculating in his face at first… dunno why i thought that…

  10. Luzbel Avatar
    Luzbel

    honestly… i thought he was ejaculating in his face at first… dunno why i thought that…

  11. Tony Avatar

    I once watched a tv special on Mayans and they had actors reenacting things like sports, and rituals. They talked about genital piercing rituals, and had actors demonstrating. They didn’t show the actual piercing, but they showed the tools and blood and stuff.

  12. Tony Avatar

    I once watched a tv special on Mayans and they had actors reenacting things like sports, and rituals. They talked about genital piercing rituals, and had actors demonstrating. They didn’t show the actual piercing, but they showed the tools and blood and stuff.

  13. Tony Avatar

    I once watched a tv special on Mayans and they had actors reenacting things like sports, and rituals. They talked about genital piercing rituals, and had actors demonstrating. They didn’t show the actual piercing, but they showed the tools and blood and stuff.

  14. Tony Avatar

    I once watched a tv special on Mayans and they had actors reenacting things like sports, and rituals. They talked about genital piercing rituals, and had actors demonstrating. They didn’t show the actual piercing, but they showed the tools and blood and stuff.

  15. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    I love the face of the figure on the left: “Aw hell yeah, that’s the stuff!” It made me smile for a long time.

  16. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    I love the face of the figure on the left: “Aw hell yeah, that’s the stuff!” It made me smile for a long time.

  17. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    I love the face of the figure on the left: “Aw hell yeah, that’s the stuff!” It made me smile for a long time.

  18. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    I love the face of the figure on the left: “Aw hell yeah, that’s the stuff!” It made me smile for a long time.

  19. Potter Avatar
    Potter

    For the Maya the instruments used for auto-sacrifice were made out of stingray spines (carved, in the nasty serrated way) and then used to pierce the King’s penis or the Queen’s tongue (diagonally), blood caught on a piece of paper which would be burned. The Visionary Serpent emerged from the smoke and the visions that came from it’s mouth would be recorded and interpreted. This is not a position you wanted to hold, for the auto-sacrifices were expected daily, or so the evidence points, I’d like to see one of these researchers do some hands on proof… frankly seems like a great way of loosing parts.

    For the Aztecs, the Maguay spines (from the tips of the leaves of the plants we get tequila from) were used to pierce the earlobes. They did not burn the blood and seemed to fear the Serpent.

    There are legends that Cacao (the plant we get chocolate from) was the result of an auto-sacrifice by one of the gods (whose name escapes me, IAM me if you really want to know more then you care about on the subject of chocolate or the visionary plants of the Aztecs) where we see the drops of blood falling to earth in the form of cacao pods.

    I’m not going to keep going on this, as I’ve got a 10 page paper on the bloody, sexual, history of chocolate that doesn’t need to be repeated.

    Oh, if you care to pay proper homage to the gods whilst in Mexico, I recommend the ruins at Coba, as with a little bit of searching, you can find some well hidden pyramids away form the tourists that offer spectacular views and privacy, not that I did anything of the sort.

    Love.
    Potter.

  20. Potter Avatar
    Potter

    For the Maya the instruments used for auto-sacrifice were made out of stingray spines (carved, in the nasty serrated way) and then used to pierce the King’s penis or the Queen’s tongue (diagonally), blood caught on a piece of paper which would be burned. The Visionary Serpent emerged from the smoke and the visions that came from it’s mouth would be recorded and interpreted. This is not a position you wanted to hold, for the auto-sacrifices were expected daily, or so the evidence points, I’d like to see one of these researchers do some hands on proof… frankly seems like a great way of loosing parts.

    For the Aztecs, the Maguay spines (from the tips of the leaves of the plants we get tequila from) were used to pierce the earlobes. They did not burn the blood and seemed to fear the Serpent.

    There are legends that Cacao (the plant we get chocolate from) was the result of an auto-sacrifice by one of the gods (whose name escapes me, IAM me if you really want to know more then you care about on the subject of chocolate or the visionary plants of the Aztecs) where we see the drops of blood falling to earth in the form of cacao pods.

    I’m not going to keep going on this, as I’ve got a 10 page paper on the bloody, sexual, history of chocolate that doesn’t need to be repeated.

    Oh, if you care to pay proper homage to the gods whilst in Mexico, I recommend the ruins at Coba, as with a little bit of searching, you can find some well hidden pyramids away form the tourists that offer spectacular views and privacy, not that I did anything of the sort.

    Love.
    Potter.

  21. Potter Avatar
    Potter

    For the Maya the instruments used for auto-sacrifice were made out of stingray spines (carved, in the nasty serrated way) and then used to pierce the King’s penis or the Queen’s tongue (diagonally), blood caught on a piece of paper which would be burned. The Visionary Serpent emerged from the smoke and the visions that came from it’s mouth would be recorded and interpreted. This is not a position you wanted to hold, for the auto-sacrifices were expected daily, or so the evidence points, I’d like to see one of these researchers do some hands on proof… frankly seems like a great way of loosing parts.

    For the Aztecs, the Maguay spines (from the tips of the leaves of the plants we get tequila from) were used to pierce the earlobes. They did not burn the blood and seemed to fear the Serpent.

    There are legends that Cacao (the plant we get chocolate from) was the result of an auto-sacrifice by one of the gods (whose name escapes me, IAM me if you really want to know more then you care about on the subject of chocolate or the visionary plants of the Aztecs) where we see the drops of blood falling to earth in the form of cacao pods.

    I’m not going to keep going on this, as I’ve got a 10 page paper on the bloody, sexual, history of chocolate that doesn’t need to be repeated.

    Oh, if you care to pay proper homage to the gods whilst in Mexico, I recommend the ruins at Coba, as with a little bit of searching, you can find some well hidden pyramids away form the tourists that offer spectacular views and privacy, not that I did anything of the sort.

    Love.
    Potter.

  22. Potter Avatar
    Potter

    For the Maya the instruments used for auto-sacrifice were made out of stingray spines (carved, in the nasty serrated way) and then used to pierce the King’s penis or the Queen’s tongue (diagonally), blood caught on a piece of paper which would be burned. The Visionary Serpent emerged from the smoke and the visions that came from it’s mouth would be recorded and interpreted. This is not a position you wanted to hold, for the auto-sacrifices were expected daily, or so the evidence points, I’d like to see one of these researchers do some hands on proof… frankly seems like a great way of loosing parts.

    For the Aztecs, the Maguay spines (from the tips of the leaves of the plants we get tequila from) were used to pierce the earlobes. They did not burn the blood and seemed to fear the Serpent.

    There are legends that Cacao (the plant we get chocolate from) was the result of an auto-sacrifice by one of the gods (whose name escapes me, IAM me if you really want to know more then you care about on the subject of chocolate or the visionary plants of the Aztecs) where we see the drops of blood falling to earth in the form of cacao pods.

    I’m not going to keep going on this, as I’ve got a 10 page paper on the bloody, sexual, history of chocolate that doesn’t need to be repeated.

    Oh, if you care to pay proper homage to the gods whilst in Mexico, I recommend the ruins at Coba, as with a little bit of searching, you can find some well hidden pyramids away form the tourists that offer spectacular views and privacy, not that I did anything of the sort.

    Love.
    Potter.

  23. ÈMþRê§§ Avatar
    ÈMþRê§§

    I love this erotic type of art, it seems so naughty 🙂

  24. ÈMþRê§§ Avatar
    ÈMþRê§§

    I love this erotic type of art, it seems so naughty 🙂

  25. ÈMþRê§§ Avatar
    ÈMþRê§§

    I love this erotic type of art, it seems so naughty 🙂

  26. ÈMþRê§§ Avatar
    ÈMþRê§§

    I love this erotic type of art, it seems so naughty 🙂

  27. Timmy Lee Avatar
    Timmy Lee

    Check that head in the bottom left corner, it’s the head of the Vision Serpent with an ancestor spirit presenting itself though the mouth. The Vision Serpent was a snake that had one head on both ends of it’s body, one head in our world & one in the spirit world, when pleased by sacrifice it would open both mouths so that the priest could see through to the other plane, either that or an ancestor or spirit could be summoned to present itself though the mouth of the serpent, to pass on information/shoot the shit/reveal basketball scores etc etc

  28. Timmy Lee Avatar
    Timmy Lee

    Check that head in the bottom left corner, it’s the head of the Vision Serpent with an ancestor spirit presenting itself though the mouth. The Vision Serpent was a snake that had one head on both ends of it’s body, one head in our world & one in the spirit world, when pleased by sacrifice it would open both mouths so that the priest could see through to the other plane, either that or an ancestor or spirit could be summoned to present itself though the mouth of the serpent, to pass on information/shoot the shit/reveal basketball scores etc etc

  29. Timmy Lee Avatar
    Timmy Lee

    Check that head in the bottom left corner, it’s the head of the Vision Serpent with an ancestor spirit presenting itself though the mouth. The Vision Serpent was a snake that had one head on both ends of it’s body, one head in our world & one in the spirit world, when pleased by sacrifice it would open both mouths so that the priest could see through to the other plane, either that or an ancestor or spirit could be summoned to present itself though the mouth of the serpent, to pass on information/shoot the shit/reveal basketball scores etc etc

  30. Timmy Lee Avatar
    Timmy Lee

    Check that head in the bottom left corner, it’s the head of the Vision Serpent with an ancestor spirit presenting itself though the mouth. The Vision Serpent was a snake that had one head on both ends of it’s body, one head in our world & one in the spirit world, when pleased by sacrifice it would open both mouths so that the priest could see through to the other plane, either that or an ancestor or spirit could be summoned to present itself though the mouth of the serpent, to pass on information/shoot the shit/reveal basketball scores etc etc

  31. Jeffrey Greene Avatar

    Hey dude!! He should be more penis piercings statue in the world!! For me getting a genital piercings is really awesome!! Thank to the Maya penis piercings statue I got over 110 genital piercings now!! Thank You Maya!!!

  32. Jeffrey Greene Avatar

    Hey dude!! He should be more penis piercings statue in the world!! For me getting a genital piercings is really awesome!! Thank to the Maya penis piercings statue I got over 110 genital piercings now!! Thank You Maya!!!

  33. Jeffrey Greene Avatar

    Hey dude!! He should be more penis piercings statue in the world!! For me getting a genital piercings is really awesome!! Thank to the Maya penis piercings statue I got over 110 genital piercings now!! Thank You Maya!!!

  34. Jeffrey Greene Avatar

    Hey dude!! He should be more penis piercings statue in the world!! For me getting a genital piercings is really awesome!! Thank to the Maya penis piercings statue I got over 110 genital piercings now!! Thank You Maya!!!

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