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The Sky in Mayan Literature
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The Sky in Mayan Literature Hardcover - 1992

by Anthony F. Aveni (Editor)


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This unique collection of essays investigates both ancient and modern Mayan texts and describes concepts of timekeeping and their role in Mayan culture. Including contributions from anthropologists, a mathematician, an art historian, and a linguist, the interdisciplinary approach in this
innovative book offers a synthesis of past and present-day dialogue between people and the world of nature around, and especially above them. The celestial sphere is the place where ancient Mayan rulers derived their source of power and yet, it is the very same realm to which the modern peasant
still prays for rain. Current research brought together in this volume attempts to portray skywatching and celestial worship as one aspect of Mayan cultural behavior that possessed an evolutionary history. It depicts the ever-changing function of the sky as revealed in the sacred books of the
Classic period, intended for priestly eyes only, through to the documents, written in the foreign tongue of a conquering oppressor, that tell of a transformed world view in which time's calendar was nevertheless still celebrated.

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  • Title The Sky in Mayan Literature
  • Author Anthony F. Aveni (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition US Printing
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York / Oxford
  • Date 1992-11
  • ISBN 9780195068443 / 0195068440
  • Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.31 x 0.95 in (24.28 x 16.03 x 2.41 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mexico - Antiquities, Mayan languages - Writing
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91017130
  • Dewey Decimal Code 972.810
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