Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
Title | Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Almere Read |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1998-07-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780253113917 |
This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
The Aztecs
Title | The Aztecs PDF eBook |
Author | David Carrasco |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2012-01-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195379381 |
Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.
Aztec Philosophy
Title | Aztec Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | James Maffie |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 609 |
Release | 2014-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1607322234 |
In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.
The Aztec Cosmos
Title | The Aztec Cosmos PDF eBook |
Author | Tomás J. Filsinger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Astronomical instruments |
ISBN |
Depicts the mechanism of the universe and the Aztec concepts of their place, both terrestrial and celestial, in it. Commonly known as Aztec Calendar or Sun Stone.
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice
Title | The Strange World of Human Sacrifice PDF eBook |
Author | Jan N. Bremmer |
Publisher | Peeters Publishers |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789042918436 |
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World
Title | Handbook to Life in the Aztec World PDF eBook |
Author | Manuel Aguilar-Moreno |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195330838 |
Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
Gods of Sun and Sacrifice
Title | Gods of Sun and Sacrifice PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Allan |
Publisher | Time Life Medical |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Aztec mythology |
ISBN | 9780705435437 |
When Cortes and his battle-weary Spanish soldiers first gazed on the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in 1519, they viewed the amazing culmination of 3,000 years of continuous cultural development. Aztec and Maya cities, temples, and palaces were in some ways like those found in Mesopotamia and Egypt: civilizations that had developed in isolation, free of outside influences. Here are the legends and stories of these two unique, ancient cultures.