Human face as seeing reflected by the Olmec mirror showed in previous page.
The piture was made, as all on this Web article, by the author at the
"Museo Nacional de Antropologia" - Mexico - DF - 1995.
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The high quality of the Olmec mirrors and the desappearence of their technology surprise us.  The mirrors influenced on religion (Tezcatlipoca, "The smoking mirror", god which has one foot substitute my one smoking mirror, f.ex.) and could have made the natives to reverenciate the europeans who arrived,  because this had mirrors, something that only praists or noble people had.  Under this information, we can see history rather different than we imagine when studied "The Conquering of America" at the school.
Figures appearing in front of converging mirrors (there is a magic based on this named as "The Aztec Rose) could have being used to attribute divine powers to the owners of mirrors.  The image appears floating in the air, inmaterial as a holographic one.
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Image of a hand obtained by means of a converging Olmec mirror.
It appears in front, at about 15cm.
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Some convergent Olmec mirrors.  The larger has a diameter of about 12cm.
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