This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpreta…
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"The myths and beliefs of the great Precolumbian civilizations of Mesoamerica have baffled and fascinated outsiders ever since the Spanish Conquest. Yet, until now, no single-volume introduction has existed to act as a guide to this labyrinthine symbolic world. In 'The gods and …
The myths and beliefs of the great Precolumbian civilizations of Mesoamerica have baffled and fascinated outsiders ever since the Spanish Conquest. This book describes the main gods and symboles of the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya, Teotihuacanos, Mixtecs, Toltecs and Aztecs. Topics ra…
"The myths and beliefs of the great Precolumbian civilizations of Mesoamerica have baffled and fascinated outsiders ever since the Spanish Conquest. Yet, until now, no single-volume introduction has existed to act as a guide to this labyrinthine symbolic world. In 'The gods and …
This book provides us with a wealth of major stories, from the origins of life to the defeat of the gods of death and also shows how Aztec state mythology provided a cosmic charter for political expansion.
Prés. de l'éd.: Los antiguos mayas desarrollaron una matemática de números enteros, positivos, con un sistema de escritura posicional que incluía el cero. Este instrumento les sirvió para describir la mecánica sideral con una exactitud sorprendente. Tenían la capacidad para pred…