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Time and sacrifice in the Aztec cosmos / Kay Almere Read.
Penn Museum Library F1219.76.R45 R43 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Read, Kay Almere, 1944-
- Series:
- Religion in North America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aztecs--Religion.
- Aztecs.
- Sacrifice--Mexico.
- Sacrifice.
- Human sacrifice--Mexico.
- Human sacrifice.
- Aztec calendar.
- Time--Religious aspects.
- Time.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- This introduction to the Mexica (or Aztec) cosmos explores sacrifice as both the foundation for and an ethical response to existence in the richly textured world of sixteenth-century Mexico. Drawing on archaeological remains, sculptures, pictorial and calendrical codices, and original translations of Nahuatl poetry and folktales, Kay Almere Read describes a world in which every being was allotted a specific lifetime and where sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book presents a convincing interpretation of what sacrifice meant in the religious life of the Mexica people - and how human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253334004
- OCLC:
- 37909790
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