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Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos (Religion in North America) Hardcover - 1998
by Read, Kay Almere
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- Title Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos (Religion in North America)
- Author Read, Kay Almere
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis
- Date 1998-07-22
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0253334004_used
- ISBN 9780253334008 / 0253334004
- Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.47 x 6.51 x 1.27 in (24.05 x 16.54 x 3.23 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: Mexican
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Academic
- Library of Congress subjects Aztecs - Religion, Sacrifice - Mexico
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97045753
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.784
From the rear cover
This introduction to the Mexica (or Aztec) cosmos explores sacrifice as both the foundation for and an ethical response to existence in the richly textured world of sixteenth-century Mexico. Drawing on archaeological remains, sculptures, pictorial and calendrical codices, and original translations of Nahuatl poetry and folktales, Kay Almere Read describes a world in which every being was allotted a specific lifetime and where sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book presents a convincing interpretation of what sacrifice meant in the religious life of the Mexica people - and how human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted.