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Tezcatlipoca : Trickster and Supreme Deity /

"Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on "the lord of the smoking mirror," one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Baquedano, Elizabeth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Symbolizing Tezcatlipoca
  • 1. The Archaeology of Tezcatlipoca
  • 2. Iconographic Characteristics of Tezcatlipoca in the Representations of Central Mexico
  • 3. Enemy Brothers or Divine Twins?
  • 4. Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli
  • 5. Tezcatlipoca as a Warrior
  • 6. Gender Ambiguity and the Toxcatl Sacrifice
  • 7. The Maya Lord of the Smoking Mirror
  • References
  • Index