The Cosmos Of The Yucatec Maya
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The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya
Author | : Merideth Paxton |
Publsiher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826322921 |
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Traces implications of a previously unrecognized image of the solar year in the Madrid Codex to find new meanings in the Dresden Codex and the Maya calendar system and a regional settlement organization in Yucatan.
Maya Shamanism Today
Author | : Bruce Love |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Mayas |
ISBN | : 0982133324 |
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Maya Cosmogenesis 2012
Author | : John Major Jenkins |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1998-08-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781591438090 |
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While researching the 2012 end-date of the Maya Calendar, John Major Jenkins decoded the Maya's galactic cosmology. The Maya discovered that the periodic alignment of the Sun with the center of the Milky Way galaxy is the formative influence on human evolution. These alignments also define a series of World Ages. The fourth age ends on December 21, 2012, when an epoch chapter in human history will come to an end. Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 reveals the Maya's insight into the cyclic nature of time, and prepares us for our own cosmogenesis--the birth of a new world.
Maya Shamanism Today
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:917836859 |
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Maya Political Science
Author | : Prudence M. Rice |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2013-08-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780292757844 |
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How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status—with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, Asia, and Africa. But Prudence Rice asserts that neither the model of two giant "superpowers" nor that which postulates scores of small, weakly independent polities fits the accumulating body of material and cultural evidence. In this groundbreaking book, Rice builds a new model of Classic lowland Maya (AD 179-948) political organization and political geography. Using the method of direct historical analogy, she integrates ethnohistoric and ethnographic knowledge of the Colonial-period and modern Maya with archaeological, epigraphic, and iconographic data from the ancient Maya. On this basis of cultural continuity, she constructs a convincing case that the fundamental ordering principles of Classic Maya geopolitical organization were the calendar (specifically a 256-year cycle of time known as the may) and the concept of quadripartition, or the division of the cosmos into four cardinal directions. Rice also examines this new model of geopolitical organization in the Preclassic and Postclassic periods and demonstrates that it offers fresh insights into the nature of rulership, ballgame ritual, and warfare among the Classic lowland Maya.
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science Technology and Medicine in Non Western Cultures
Author | : Helaine Selin |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 2428 |
Release | : 2008-03-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781402045592 |
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Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new topics. This unique reference work includes intercultural articles on broad topics such as mathematics and astronomy as well as thoughtful philosophical articles on concepts and ideas related to the study of non-Western Science, such as rationality, objectivity, and method. You’ll also find material on religion and science, East and West, and magic and science.
Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya
Author | : Miguel Leon-Portilla |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1990-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0806123087 |
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In this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel León-Portilla explores the Maya Indians’ remarkable concepts of time. At the book’s first appearance Evon Z. Vogt, Curator of Middle American Ethnology in Harvard University, predicted that it would become "a classic in anthropology," a prediction borne out by the continuing critical attention given to it by leading scholars. Like no other people in history, the ancient Maya were obsessed by the study of time. Their sages framed its cycles with tireless exactitude. Yet their preoccupation with time was not limited to calendrics; it was a central trait in their evolving culture. In this absorbing work León-Portilla probes the question, What did time really mean for the ancient Maya in terms of their mythology, religious thought, worldview, and everyday life? In his analysis of key Maya texts and computations, he reveals one of the most elaborate attempts of the human mind to penetrate the secrets of existence.
Maya Cosmos
Author | : David Freidel |
Publsiher | : William Morrow Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1995-02-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0688140696 |
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A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical to the mythological, and envokes the awesome power of one of the richest civilizations ever to grace the earth.