07.10
Is this Chavez?
Is this an Olmec?
I had my doubts about reincarnation till running across this – “Separated Before Excavation” while researching the Mystery Girl #5 post.
Further research at the Wiki concerning Olmec culture brought up a quote dealing with the large stone heads, “Others note that in addition to the broad noses and thick lips, the eyes of the heads have the Asian epicanthic fold, and that all these characteristics can still be found in modern Mesoamerican Indians. To support this, in the 1940s artist/art historian Miguel Covarrubias published a series of photos of Olmec artworks and of the faces of modern Mexican Indians with very similar facial characteristics.”
Covarrubias Self Caricature
That sent me off in search of information about Miguel Covarrubias, who drew himself as an Olmec this way:
Why was I interested enough to look him up? Because I had written for Colony Alchibah a character I called Janie Cantarubius. a name derived from the X-Files actress Lauri Holden’s portrayal of “Marita Covarrubius,” and a name I now think was derived from Miguel Covarrubias. Though I had not heard of him Miguel was a famous figure in art circles and a friend of director John Houston. There is one more link in this extended chain of circumstance.
Laurie Holden
Laurie Holden’s character “Marita” was a South American blonde working for the U.N. – I wondered where all the South American blondes came from though I now know they are not uncommon. Laurie looks somewhat like an older version of Mystery Girl #5. She had a role in the 1980 mini-series “The Martian Chronicles”, which somehow I also missed, but a short story from the Bradbury collection will one day end up on old time radio. Like Mystery Girl #2 she was another child actress because her birth-date is given as 1972.
Holden’s latest role is in the television series “The Walking Dead,” which Wiki calls, “…the story of the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse”, and thus the final coincidence in my tale of the “Undead” and why I put this all together.