Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate
In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet V…
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- ISBN: 978-0-292-71263-8
- EAN: 9780292712638
- Produktnummer: 2429822
- Verlag: University of Texas Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 338 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B28.8 cm x D2.1 cm 1'382 g
- Abbildungen: 12 color illus. in 8 page section, 144 b&w illus.
- Gewicht: 1382
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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