Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities - 9780806139579
Un libro in lingua di Bassie Karen Sweet edito da Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2008
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A specialist in Mayan culture, Bassie-Sweet (U. of Calgary) identifies and describes the agricultural nature of deities the Maya considered responsible for the initial creation and ordering of the world and its cyclical renewal. She draws on the 16th-century Popul Vuh, Maya art, and hieroglyphic texts and draws analogies with contemporary sources. Corn, of course, plays as big a part in creation as it does in daily life. Other topics include the thunderbolt triad, the paternal grandmother and her daughters-in-law, the landscape of the night sky, and the core myth. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Bassie Karen Sweet
- Editore: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
- Collana: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Novembre '08
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Maya mythology Maya cosmology Creation Mythology Guatemala
- Pagine: 359
- Dimensioni mm: 254 x 177 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0806139579
- EAN-13: 9780806139579