A celebration of Life - the Background is a Christian Cross taken in Mexico at the northern edge of the Archeological site (with the Harry Jerome Statue from Stanley Park, a Skull from Monte Alban Dig, and a young Lady jumping into the Okanagan Lake from 2002 to 2010) - Suchilquitongo, Oaxaca, Mexico - January 22, 2002.

This place is situated in District of Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico, its geographical coordinates are 17° 15' 0" North, 96° 53' 0" West and is part of a village to the east - its original name (with diacritics) is Santiago Suchilquitongo.

On this site, there was a discovery of a tomb - a recent study analyzes the imagery and writing carved on a “genealogical register” found in an elaborate tomb recently discovered at the northern end of the Valley of Etla in Oaxaca. Known as Tomb 5, the elaborate mausoleum contains architecture, sculpture, and murals pertaining to Period IIIb in the Valley of Oaxaca sequence. The carved stone inserted into the tomb at a later date, during Period IV, clearly establishes lines of descent from a venerated ancestor. The carving depicts a dead lord and provides information including the year and day of his death, which are given in 52-year and 260-day cycles, as well as information about his immediate descendants, including a young son and a mature daughter. Associated texts tell not only the calendar names of these family members but also, in the case of the son and daughter, their family-lineage name and their birth-order names. The writing also gives the birth and death dates of the lord's offspring; information that indirectly reveals their ages at the time of their father's death. Image and text complement each other by giving distinct information about the family lineage of a venerated ancestor.

Digital Art April 13, 2011.

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