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La choza maya : cuna y custodia de los grandes misterios y de la sabiduría de una cultura que sigue viva / Dámaso Rivas Gutiérrez.
Penn Museum Library F1435.3.D84 R58 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rivas Gutiérrez, Dámaso.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Mayas--Dwellings--Yucatán Peninsula.
- Mayas.
- Mayas--Yucatán Peninsula--Social life and customs.
- Maya cosmology.
- Mayas--Yucatán Peninsula--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Manners and customs.
- Mayas--Dwellings.
- Yucatán Peninsula--Antiquities.
- Yucatán Peninsula.
- Mayas--Antiquities.
- Mayas--Social life and customs.
- Central America--Yucatán Peninsula.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Cuna y custodia de los grandes misterios y de la sabiduria de una cultura que sigue viva
- Place of Publication:
- Mérida, Yucatán, México : Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 2012.
- Summary:
- Essay on the historical and cultural value of the ancestral hut of the Maya, addresses the development and construction, customs and traditions that the Mayan ancestors through the particular point of view of the author on the great mysteries, historical gaps, the high degree of scientific development and the apparent sudden collapse of the Mayan civilization. "To this day, there is no person or theory that can reasonably and irrefutably explain three great incognita: 1. Who are the Maya really?, 2. When, where and who decided that the vigesimal system, born from the use of the toes and hands as units, could become a system of only three signs: four points as units, a line as auxiliary equivalent to 5 and a symbol to represent zero?, and 3. The antiquity and true meaning of the oldest calendar, the sacred of 13 periods with twenty units each (days), known as "Buc Xoc", "Tzolkin", "synchronary", "telar" or universal vibration model, which to our days, has not been scientifically proven." (HKB TRanslation) --Pages 11-12.
- Contents:
- PRIMERA PARTE: Lo que he visto o me contaron
- La primera hipotesis sobre el trazo perdido
- De las dimensiones de la casa
- De la orientación
- Nivelacion y cimiento
- El trazo de la casa
- Ubicacion de los horcomes
- De la formación del primer cuadro sobre el cimiento (horcomes)
- SEGUNDA PARTE: Lo que tuve que aprender para entender lo que he visto o me contaron
- Valor historico y cultural de la ancentral choza de los mayas
- Relación de la choza con el primer calendario de los mayas
- Los numeros magicos de la vision cosmogonica Maya en relacion con un sistema antropometrico de medicion
- TERCERA PARTE: Lo que concluyo como certeza (probado) o como hipotesis (probable) sobre lo visto y aprendio al asociarlo y contrastarlo con el texto del Chilam Balam de Chumayel
- Conclusion
- La choza maya como unico simbolo vivo de identidad y pertenencia
- Anexo
- La casa maya tradicional: un punto de vista arqueologico
- Glosario
- Guia qsquematico para entender mejor la choza maya.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-199).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9786078191406
- 6078191403
- OCLC:
- 862232551
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