The Flayed God
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Author | : Roberta H. Markman |
Publisher | : Harper San Francisco |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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The authors of Masks of the Spirit present modern English translations of the important myths of the Olmec, Toltec, Maya, and Aztec civilizations of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, along with the strange imagery of the original codices and stallae. Illustrated with 100 photographs (25 in color) of crucial monuments, murals, masks, and friezes.
Author | : Roberta H. Markman |
Publisher | : Harper San Francisco |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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The authors of Masks of the Spirit present modern English translations of the important myths of the Olmec, Toltec, Maya, and Aztec civilizations of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, along with the strange imagery of the original codices and stallae. Illustrated with 100 photographs (25 in color) of crucial monuments, murals, masks, and friezes.
Author | : Guilhem Olivier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-03 |
Genre | : Aztec gods |
ISBN | : 9780870819070 |
Download Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood Mesoamerican pantheon. Analyzing the sources and problems related to Tezcatlipoca's protean powers and shifting meanings, the author guides readers through the symbolic names of this great god, from his representation on skins and stones to his relationship to ritual knives and other deities.
Author | : Molly H. Bassett |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2015-01-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0292762992 |
Download The Fate of Earthly Things Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
“Bassett at last provides a path to understand better the specifically Aztec characteristics of the teteoh and their ritual ‘embodiments.’” —Ethnohistory Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a “god” (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion—teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)—to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world. In The Fate of Earthly Things, Molly Bassett draws on ethnographic fieldwork, linguistic analyses, visual culture, and ritual studies to explore what ritual practices such as human sacrifice and the manufacture of deity embodiments (including humans who became gods), material effigies, and sacred bundles meant to the Aztecs. She analyzes the Aztec belief that wearing the flayed skin of a sacrificial victim during a sacred rite could transform a priest into an embodiment of a god or goddess, as well as how figurines and sacred bundles could become localized embodiments of gods. Without arguing for unbroken continuity between the Aztecs and modern speakers of Nahuatl, Bassett also describes contemporary rituals in which indigenous Mexicans who preserve costumbres (traditions) incorporate totiotzin (gods) made from paper into their daily lives. This research allows us to understand a religious imagination that found life in death and believed that deity embodiments became animate through the ritual binding of blood, skin, and bone.
Author | : Roberta H. Markman |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1993-12-17 |
Genre | : Aztec mythology |
ISBN | : 9780062507495 |
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Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Dying and rising gods |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Carrasco |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2012-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195379381 |
Download The Aztecs Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.
Author | : Chas Saunders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780752458045 |
Download The Book of the Gods Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Are you tired of the same old boring god you've worshipped for years? Looking for something new and exciting? The Book of the Gods has the answer! Explore hundreds of deities of all shapes, sizes, genders, colours with myriad powers.This is the official book of the leading mythological website Godchecker and is packed full of extraordinary facts and mythological trivia. Who is the god of shoes? The god of football? The god of fluff?From the gods of Greece and Rome to the bizarre and often downright scary gods of Oceania and the Aztecs you will find there is a deity for every occasion. Alongside the A-Z listings are 20 introductory essays that give an entertaining and accessible overview of each pantheon.
Author | : Manuel Aguilar-Moreno |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195330838 |
Download Handbook to Life in the Aztec World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
Author | : Michael D. Coe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.--Library Journal