Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos (Religion in North America) - Hardcover

Read, Kay Almere

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253334004 ISBN 13: 9780253334008

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1998

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This introduction to the Mexica (or Aztecs) explores the nature and importance of time and sacrifice in the Mexica cosmos.

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Kay Read is associate professor of comparative religions in the Religious Studies Department at DePaul University. She is the author of a number of articles on pre-Conquest religious traditions and is currently working on both a book on Mexica rulership and ethics and an encyclopedia of mesoamerican mythology.

Kay Almere Read is an associate professor of comparative religions in the Religious Studies Department at DePaul University.

Kay Read is associate professor of comparative religions in the Religious Studies Department at DePaul University. She is the author of a number of articles on pre-Conquest religious traditions and is currently working on both a book on Mexica rulership and ethics and an encyclopedia of mesoamerican mythology.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253334004
• ISBN 13: 9780253334008
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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