The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya
Title | The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya PDF eBook |
Author | Merideth Paxton |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780826322920 |
Traces implications of a previously unrecognized image of the solar year in the Madrid Codex to find new meanings in the Dresden Codex and the Maya calendar system and a regional settlement organization in Yucatan.
Maya Shamanism Today
Title | Maya Shamanism Today PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 2004 |
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The Popol Vuh
Title | The Popol Vuh PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Spence |
Publisher | New York : AMS Press |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Social Science |
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The Maya sky, the Maya world
Title | The Maya sky, the Maya world PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Sosa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Mayas |
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Star Gods of the Maya
Title | Star Gods of the Maya PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Milbrath |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0292778511 |
“A prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship” on Maya astronomy and religion (Journal of Interdisciplinary History). Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Pre-Columbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Pre-Columbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture. “Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines.” ―Isis “Destined to become a standard reference work on Maya archeoastronomy . . . Utterly comprehensive.” —Andrea Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Maya Cosmos
Title | Maya Cosmos PDF eBook |
Author | David Freidel |
Publisher | William Morrow Paperbacks |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1995-02-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780688140694 |
A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical to the mythological, and envokes the awesome power of one of the richest civilizations ever to grace the earth.
Reshaping the Cosmos
Title | Reshaping the Cosmos PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly Henke Breuer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Itza Indians |
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