Book Description
Describes the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs and Mayans through their legends.
Author : Packages
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2000-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780785823513
Describes the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs and Mayans through their legends.
Author : David West
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435838505
Mesoamerica provides menacing serpents, superhuman gods, and heroic twins for this spellbinding title that covers myths from Aztec and Mayan cultures. These mesmerizing stories are bookended by front and back matter that introduce characters, explain Mesoamerican mythology, and provide information on other mythical figures whose stories are not told.
Author : Karl Taube
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292781306
The myths of the Aztec and Maya derive from a shared Mesoamerican cultural tradition. This is very much a living tradition, and many of the motifs and gods mentioned in early sources are still evoked in the lore of contemporary Mexico and Guatemala. Professor Taube discusses the different sources for Aztec and Maya myths. The Aztec empire began less than 200 years before the Spanish conquest, and our knowledge of their mythology derives primarily from native colonial documents and manuscripts commissioned by the Spanish. The Maya mythology is far older, and our knowledge of it comes mainly from native manuscripts of the Classic period, over 600 years before the Spanish conquest. Drawing on these sources as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century excavations and research, including the interpretation of the codices and the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing, the author discusses, among other things, the Popol Vuh myths of the Maya, the flood myth of Northern Yucatan, and the Aztec creation myths.
Author : Kay Almere Read
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2002-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195149092
Illustrated with scores of drawings and halftone photos, this guidebook to the mythology of Mexico and Central America focuses mainly on Mexican Highland and Maya areas, due to their importance in Mesoamerican history.
Author : Tom Daning
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404234017
Explains, in graphic novel format, the Mesoamerican myth of Quetzalcoatl, in which a battle between the gods leads to the creation of earth and sky.
Author : Sebastian Berg
Publisher : Creek Ridge Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2021-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Discover the mythology of the Aztec civilization The Aztec civilization of Central Mexico consisted of several communities with distinct cultures and languages. The Nahuatl-speaking tribes were the most popular and celebrated rituals based on their own version of myths and stories. While the Mesoamerican cultures shared many stories, rituals, and myths with the Aztecs, they were recognized as a separate community. The Aztecs were believed to come from the regions around Lake Texcoco and the Anahuac Valley. These regions collectively form the modern Mexico City we know today.
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317464842
In order to understand the course of economic and social disintegration in the Soviet Union, various questions were put to Soviet officials and economic and other policy advisors of the 1980s. This text assembles the analyses of key issues and turning points into a history of the systemic collapse.
Author : Enrique Florescano
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2002-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801871016
In this comprehensive study, Enrique Florescano traces the spread of the worship of the Plumed Serpent, and the multiplicity of interpretations that surround him, by comparing the Palenque inscriptions (ca. A.D. 690), the Vienna Codex (pre-Hispanic Conquest), the Historia de los Mexicanos (1531), the Popul Vuh (ca. 1554), and numerous other texts. He also consults and reproduces archeological evidence from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, demonstrating how the myth of Quetzalcoatl extends throughout Mesoamerica.
Author : Alfredo López Austin
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Published in 1990 under the title Los mitos del tlacuache, this is the first major theoretical study of Mesoamerican mythology by one of the foremost scholars of Aztec ideology. Using the myth cycle of the opossum and the theft of fire from the gods as a touchstone, Lopez Austin constructs a definition of myth that pertains to all of Mesoamerican culture, challenging the notion that to be relevant such studies must occur within a specific culture. Shown here is that much of modern mythology has ancient roots, despite syncretism with Christianity, and can be used to elucidate the pre-Columbian world view. Analysis of pre-Columbian myths can also be used to understand current indigenous myths. Subtopics include the hero and his place in the Mesoamerican pantheon, divine space and human space, mythic event clusters, myth as truth, and the fusion of myth and history. This book presents a unique description of the Mesoamerican world view for students of comparative religion, history of religion, folklore, ethnology, and anthropology.
Author : Roberta H. Markman
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
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.