Cycles of time and meaning in the Mexican books of fate /

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"In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers an explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then exp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boone, Elizabeth Hill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
Temas:
Aztec mythology.
Aztec calendar.
Manuscripts, Nahuatl > Mexico.
Aztecs > Rites and ceremonies.
Mythologie aztèque.
Calendrier aztèque.
Manuscrits nahuatl > Mexique.
Aztèques > Rites et cérémonies.
SCIENCE > Time.
Aztec calendar
Aztec mythology
Aztecs > Rites and ceremonies
Manuscripts, Nahuatl
Aztekisk tideräkning.
Azteker > mytologi.
Azteker > riter och ceremonier.
Mexico
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Containers of the knowledge of the world
  • 2. Time, the ritual calendar, and divination
  • 3. The symbolic vocabulary of the almanacs
  • 4. Structures of prophetic knowledge
  • 5. The almanacs
  • Multipurpose almanacs
  • Directional almanacs
  • Topical almanacs
  • 6. Protocols for rituals
  • 7. The cosmogony in the Codex Borgia
  • 8. Provenience
  • 9. A Mexican divinatory system
  • Appendix. Content summaries.

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