Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
Download or Read eBook Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos PDF written by Kay Almere Read and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Kay Almere Read |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 1998-07-22 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0253113911 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780253113917 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos by : Kay Almere Read
Book excerpt: This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
