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The myth of Quetzalcoatl : religion, rulership, and history in the Nahua world / Alfredo López Austin ; translated by Russ Davidson with Guilhem Olivier.
Penn Museum Library F1219.3.R38 L5913 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- López Austin, Alfredo, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Hombre-dios. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Aztec mythology.
- Aztecs--Social life and customs.
- Aztecs.
- Quetzalcoatl (Mesoamerican deity).
- Quetzalcoatl.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]
- Summary:
- "The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin's 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y politica en el mundo náhuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this is the first English translation of the work"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Reed
- The initial focus of foreign origin
- The skeptical focus
- The critical focus
- The end of a truncated history and its consequences
- Men and gods
- Space and time
- The nature of the man-god
- The life of the man-god
- The history of the man-god.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781607323907
- 1607323907
- OCLC:
- 898092749
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