Encounter with the Plumed Serpent : Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica /
The Mixtec, or the people of Savi ("Nation of the Rain God"), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. This book presents and interprets the sacred histories narrated...
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| Langue: | anglais |
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Boulder :
University Press of Colorado,
2007.
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Table des matières:
- The mat and the throne
- Storytelling and ritual
- Descent of the plumed serpent
- Founding mothers
- The rise of Ñuu Tnoo
- Lord of the Toltecs
- Triumph and tragedy
- Flute of the divine
- The crown of Motecuhzoma.