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Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents

Author : Rex Koontz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779887
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents written by Rex Koontz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Tajín, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive sculptural programs. Yet the city's singularity as the only center in the region with such a wealth of sculpture and fine architecture has hindered attempts to place it more firmly in the context of Mesoamerican history. In Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents, Rex Koontz undertakes the first extensive treatment of El Tajín's iconography in over thirty years, allowing us to view its imagery in the broader Mesoamerican context of rising capitals and new elites during a period of fundamental historical transformations. Koontz focuses on three major architectural features—the Pyramid of the Niches/Central Plaza ensemble, the South Ballcourt, and the Mound of the Building Columns complex—and investigates the meanings of their sculpture and how these meanings would have been experienced by specific audiences. Koontz finds that the iconography of El Tajín reveals much about how motifs and elite rites growing out of the Classic period were transmitted to later Mesoamerican peoples as the cultures centered on Teotihuacan and the Maya became the myriad city-states of the Early Postclassic period. By reexamining the iconography of sculptures long in the record, as well as introducing important new monuments and contexts, Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents clearly demonstrates El Tajín's numerous iconographic connections with other areas of Mesoamerica, while also exploring its roots in an indigenous Gulf lowlands culture whose outlines are only now emerging. At the same time, it begins to uncover a largely ignored regional artistic culture of which Tajín is the crowning achievement.

Fair Gods and Feathered Serpents

Author : Terry J. O'Brien
Publisher : Horizon Pub & Dist Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780882906089
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Fair Gods and Feathered Serpents written by Terry J. O'Brien and published by Horizon Pub & Dist Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everywhere they went in the New World, missionaries, trappers, colonizers and conquistadores encountered strange stories of bearded, white visitor who came in ancient times-long before Columbus-and brought a higher civilization with him. So remarkable was this visitor and his advanced civilization that natives built huge monuments and great structures in his honor, and many worshiped him as a God. His symbol, the feathered serpent, appeared in ceremonies, paintings, carvings and architecture which can still be seen at various site throughout the Americas. Carefully researched and documented but writeen for the layman as well as the scholar, this exciting book will lead readers along the fascinating path of discovery, insight and deduction as it attempts to slove the most baffling riddle ever produced by the ancient Americas-the identity of its mysterious beareded white visitor.

Riot!

Author : Jake Frederick
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782843515
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Riot! written by Jake Frederick and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the Totonac native community of Papantla, Veracruz, during the last half of the eighteenth century. Told through the lens of violent revolt, this is the first book-length study devoted to Papantla during the colonial era. The book tells the story of a native community confronting significant disruption of its agricultural tradition, and the violence that change provoked. Papantla's story is told in the form of an investigation into the political, social, and ethnic experience of an agrarian community. The Bourbon monopolisation of tobacco in 1764 disturbed a fragile balance, and pushed long-term native frustrations to the point of violence. Through the stories of four uprisings, Jake Frederick examines the Totonacs increasingly difficult economic environment, their view of justice, and their political tactics. Riot! argues that for the native community of Papantla, the nature of colonial rule was, even in the waning decades of the colonial era, a process of negotiation rather than subjugation. The second half of the eighteenth century saw an increase in collective violence across the Spanish American colonies as communities reacted to the strains imposed by the various Bourbon reforms. Riot! provides a much needed exploration of what the colony-wide policy reforms of Bourbon Spain meant on the ground in rural communities in New Spain. The narrative of each uprising draws the reader into the crisis as it unfolds, providing an entree into an analysis of the event. The focus on the community provides a new understanding of the demographics of this rural community, including an account of the as yet unexamined black population of Papantla.

Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership

Author : Saburo Sugiyama
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780568
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership written by Saburo Sugiyama and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological examination of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid as a symbol of power in Teotihuacan.

The Mythology of Sleep

Author : Kari Hohne
Publisher : Way of Tao Books
ISBN 13 : 0981977901
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Mythology of Sleep written by Kari Hohne and published by Way of Tao Books. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are interested in understanding the meaning of your dreams, The Mythology of Sleep explores the similar healing themes from our ancient myths. The Mythology of Sleep: The Waking Power of Dreams is a groundbreaking look at the hero's journey through the dreamscape. Just as myths are stories about heroes in search of their destiny, the fantastic landscapes and cryptic symbols appearing in dreams present clues about our real identity. Discover the 3 parts of every dream that reveals the conflict, cause and it's resolution and how dreams describe the future. As if some aspect of the mind has an understanding that transcends time and self-awareness, the journey always awakens us to our full potential. Approaching dreams as the hero's journey through a landscape of wellness, this self-help book makes healing an adventure, and presents a new dimension in the study of dream interpretation.

Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (Sixth) (World of Art)

Author : Mary Ellen Miller
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500775036
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (Sixth) (World of Art) written by Mary Ellen Miller and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Ellen Miller’s rich visual and scholarly survey of pre-Hispanic art and architecture, including the most recent archaeological finds. Expanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Hispanic civilizations of Central America—Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec—as well as those of their lesser-known contemporaries. Providing an in-depth examination of central works, this book guides readers through the most iconic palaces, pyramids, sculptures, and paintings. From the Olmec colossal head 5 recovered from San Lorenzo to the Aztec calendar stone found in Mexico City’s Zocalo in 1790, this book reveals the complexity and innovation behind the art and architecture produced in pre-Hispanic civilizations. This new edition incorporates fifty new lavish color images and extensive updates based on the latest research and dozens of recent discoveries, particularly in Maya art, where excavations at Teotihuacan, the largest city of Mesoamerica, and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs, have yielded new sculptures.

Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees

Author : Kathleen Berrin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees written by Kathleen Berrin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology

Author : Marian Edwardes
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology written by Marian Edwardes and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1952 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Non-classical Mythology

Author : Marian Edwardes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Non-classical Mythology written by Marian Edwardes and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flower Worlds

Author : Michael Mathiowetz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542945
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Flower Worlds written by Michael Mathiowetz and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas. These worlds are solar and floral spiritual domains that are widely shared among both pre-Hispanic and contemporary Native cultures in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create a truly multidisciplinary understanding of Flower Worlds. During the last thirty years, archaeologists, art historians, ethnologists, Indigenous scholars, and linguists have emphasized the antiquity and geographical extent of similar Flower World beliefs among ethnic and linguistic groups in the New World. Flower Worlds are not simply ethereal, otherworldly domains, but rather they are embodied in lived experience, activated, invoked, and materialized through ritual practices, expressed in verbal and visual metaphors, and embedded in the use of material objects and ritual spaces. This comprehensive book illuminates the origins of Flower Worlds as a key aspect of religions and histories among societies in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. It also explores the role of Flower Worlds in shaping ritual economies, politics, and cross-cultural interaction among Indigenous peoples. Flower Worlds reaches into multisensory realms that extend back at least 2,500 years, offering many different disciplines, perspectives, and collaborations to understand these domains. Today, Flower Worlds are expressed in everyday work and lived experiences, embedded in sacred geographies, and ritually practiced both individually and in communities. This volume stresses the importance of contemporary perspectives and experiences by opening with living traditions before delving into the historical trajectories of Flower Worlds, creating a book that melds scientific and humanistic research and emphasizes Indigenous voices. Contributors: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, James M. Córdova, Davide Domenici, Ángel González López, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Michael D. Mathiowetz, Cameron L. McNeil, Felipe S. Molina, Johannes Neurath, John M. D. Pohl, Alan R. Sandstrom, David Delgado Shorter, Karl A. Taube, Andrew D. Turner, Lorena Vázquez Vallín, Dorothy Washburn

Vital Voids

Author : Andrew Finegold
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477322434
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Vital Voids written by Andrew Finegold and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resurrection Plate, a Late Classic Maya dish, is decorated with an arresting scene. The Maize God, assisted by two other deities, emerges reborn from a turtle shell. At the center of the plate, in the middle of the god’s body and aligned with the point of emergence, there is a curious sight: a small, neatly drilled hole. Art historian Andrew Finegold explores the meanings attributed to this and other holes in Mesoamerican material culture, arguing that such spaces were broadly understood as conduits of vital forces and material abundance, prerequisites for the emergence of life. Beginning with, and repeatedly returning to, the Resurrection Plate, this study explores the generative potential attributed to a wide variety of cavities and holes in Mesoamerica, ranging from the perforated dishes placed in Classic Maya burials, to caves and architectural voids, to the piercing of human flesh. Holes are also discussed in relation to fire, based on the common means through which both were produced: drilling. Ultimately, by attending to what is not there, Vital Voids offers a fascinating approach to Mesoamerican cosmology and material culture.

Memory Traces

Author : Cynthia Kristan-Graham
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 160732377X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Memory Traces written by Cynthia Kristan-Graham and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Memory Traces, art historians and archaeologists come together to examine the nature of sacred space in Mesoamerica. Through five well-known and important centers of political power and artistic invention in Mesoamerica—Tetitla at Teotihuacan, Tula Grande, the Mound of the Building Columns at El Tajín, the House of the Phalli at Chichén Itzá, and Tonina—contributors explore the process of recognizing and defining sacred space, how sacred spaces were viewed and used both physically and symbolically, and what theoretical approaches are most useful for art historians and archaeologists seeking to understand these places. Memory Traces acknowledges that the creation, use, abandonment, and reuse of sacred space have a strongly recursive relation to collective memory and meanings linked to the places in question and reconciles issues of continuity and discontinuity of memory in ancient Mesoamerican sacred spaces. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Mesoamerican studies and material culture, art historians, architectural historians, and cultural anthropologists. Contributors: Laura M. Amrhein, Nicholas P. Dunning, Rex Koontz, Cynthia Kristan-Graham, Matthew G. Looper, Travis Nygard, Keith M. Prufer, Matthew H. Robb, Patricia J. Sarro, Kaylee Spencer, Eric Weaver, Linnea Wren

The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology

Author : Deborah L. Nichols
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199875006
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology written by Deborah L. Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico written by archaeologists from these countries. These are followed by regional syntheses organized by time period, beginning with early hunter-gatherer societies and the first farmers of Mesoamerica and concluding with a discussion of the Spanish Conquest and frontiers and peripheries of Mesoamerica. Topical and comparative articles comprise the remainder of Handbook. They cover important dimensions of prehispanic societies--from ecology, economy, and environment to social and political relations--and discuss significant methodological contributions, such as geo-chemical source studies, as well as new theories and diverse theoretical perspectives. The Handbook concludes with a section on the archaeology of the Spanish conquest and the Colonial and Republican periods to connect the prehispanic, proto-historic, and historic periods. This volume will be a must-read for students and professional archaeologists, as well as other scholars including historians, art historians, geographers, and ethnographers with an interest in Mesoamerica.

Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity

Author : Kaylee R. Spencer
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826355803
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity written by Kaylee R. Spencer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs. In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the links between spatial order and cosmic order and the possibility that such connections have sociopolitical consequences. This book will prove useful not just to Mayanists but to art historians in other fields and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, and landscape architecture.

Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica

Author : Rubén G. Mendoza
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303136600X
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica written by Rubén G. Mendoza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legacy of the Feathered Serpent

Author : Alica McKenna-Johnson
Publisher : AMJ Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0996944478
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Legacy of the Feathered Serpent written by Alica McKenna-Johnson and published by AMJ Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Magic of Serpents

Author : Scott Irvine
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803410574
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Serpents written by Scott Irvine and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remnant from the age of the dinosaur, the serpent was originally a symbol of arcane knowledge from the old gods. Transformed into the devil for tempting Eve to eat from the forbidden tree, the serpent has remained the villain ever since. Scott Irvines's The Magic of Serpents is a profound search for the symbolism and worldwide mythology - at the religious, philosophical and spiritual levels - for which the serpent stands.