... nezahualiztli. I conclude that avoiding some hygienic practices, fasting, and abstaining from sex, among other forms of abstinence, allowed humans to assimilate with the deities and dead who inhabited the world beyond. The Nahua observed nezahualiztli whenever they needed to enter a liminal state...

... on the mass appeal of ritual and pageantry performed by royals, but the magnetism of a theater state only goes so far. In this book, Joanne Baron presents hieroglyphic and archaeological evidence of patron deities and argues that the larger-than-life effigies fed and housed in many of the well-known temples...

... on a common tradition. The themes depicted are generally known from interpretations by informed natives and were recorded shortly after the Conquest. The iconographie identification of the deities was greatly advanced by Eduard Seler, who frequently oriented his interpretations toward the thematic context...

... and overthrow are both historical fact and predicated on social structure. The book’s second part concentrates on how Inca dualism inflects origin myths, deities, specific rituals, and calendar. The first two, according to Yaya, are intimately related. She reconciles the two distinct origin accounts...

... lineages, community members, and newcomers in terms of ritual usage of built spaces. In a chapter devoted to Classic Maya patron deities, Joanne Baron explores important distinctions among “general” deities, patron deities, and ancestors, noting some important examples of the adoption of new patron deities...

... (Ida Giovanna Rao's chapter), the conquest narrative of book 12 (Terraciano's chapter), and hybridity in image aesthetics (Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo's chapter). Part 2 includes treatments of deities (by Eloise Quiñones Keber), rulers and deities (by Elizabeth Hill Boone), and the complex and nuanced...

... in the viceroyalty, signaling a significant development given the new value with which the indigenous past was imbued by creoles in their quest for independence. While Emily Umberger looks at the installation of Aztec monuments dedicated to weather deities in imperial provinces as a way of controlling those...

... priests of the Inca state religion, who disappeared with the fall of the Inca. Second, there were priests of the regional deities, who were also maintained by the state, and who had extended their influence by adopting lesser gods as their gods’ sons and daughters. Under the Spaniards, such priests either...

... in the traditional Spanish version of “tlatoani Moctezuma” (p. 88). After that digression, he continues the narrative of the landing, first encounters with Indigenous people, the move into the central basin, and the issue of the relationship of the Spanish invaders with the Indigenous deity of Quetzalcoatl. Recent...

...” is constantly being transformed. This argument for constant change provides Florescano with a justification for his use of wide-ranging sources. The resultant “Myth of Quetzalcoatl” encompasses a number of “faces” not immediately recognizable as related to the sixteenth-century deity of the same name...

... be divided into two parts. The first section contains a sweeping analysis of the considerable historiographical corpus related to Quetzalcoatl. Since the sixteenth century, the question of the historicity of Tollan and its ruler Quetzalcoatl—at once supreme deity and mortal man—has been hotly debated...

... among the modern Maya than students have heretofore supposed. The author proceeds by a method of direct comparison. The major part of the book consists of detailed descriptions of religious practices in sixteen Chortí towns in southeastern Guatemala. Deities, mythologies, liturgies, and occult rituals...

... University Press 1973 Codex Dresden consists of 39 leaves, meticulously painted in colors on both sides with hieroglyphs and portraits of deities and folded like a screen. Internal evidence suggests that the Codex, a copy of an earlier manuscript, originated in northwestern Yucatán between A.D. 1200...

... convincing. Nicholson identifies the elements of the Aztec iconographic system and supplies a useful list of insignia for the major deities. Furst argues for the sacred character of ceramic figurines that come from the shaft tombs of West Mexico, by showing an extraordinary series of parallels...

... of questions and answers, including some variations LB NY C O V M VG P VC 399 G B 25 T E 77 GO 1 Please tell me (you who are God's believer), does the true deity, God, exist? Yes, the true deity, God, exists. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 2 (Tell...

... , appeared in 1950. The present volume is a revision of that first edition of Book I. In the Florentine Codex this book consists of two parts: a text of 22 chapters, and an Appendix. Each chapter of the text is devoted to an important deity or group of related deities. The inventions, difficulties...

... process. If none of the essays that follows quite matches the introduction’s scope, each makes a distinctive contribution to a fuller picture of this ambiguous, powerful, and now fully international deity. The late Robert G. Armstrong, an anthropological linguist, explores the etymology of Ogun’s name...

... to the cosmic forces of the creation of the universe. Food was also the vector for physical and spiritual transformations represented in other rituals, such as the dough images of deities. While folks would enjoy their food, it also conveyed a deeper and more profound message about existence and the cosmos...

... Juan. For practitioners of the syncretic religion Santería , la Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre was altogether a different deity. She served as the Catholic iconic mask for the Yoruba orisha known as Oshún, a spiritual being fond of song, dance, perfumes, and jewelry and associated with hard work...

... in the collection. José Luis Martínez Cereceda examines the telling contrast between the way Spaniards thought indigenous people saw them — as deities, viracochas — and the representations of the Spanish found in indigenous sources such as cave and rock paintings, which tended to associate Spaniards closely...