The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya ArtKimbell Art Museum, 1986 - 335 pages An illustrated study of the Maya civilization, drawing from interpretations of the texts embedded in pictorial scenes or carved on stone tablets to provide the meaning of the art and architecture of the ancient culture. |
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... blood , which indicates that the vision comes from blood . When the personified feather fan symbol of blood is absent , the Vision Serpent rears up from a blood scroll instead . blood and jaguar pelt headdress a tail ancestor personified ...
... blood , which indicates that the vision comes from blood . When the personified feather fan symbol of blood is absent , the Vision Serpent rears up from a blood scroll instead . blood and jaguar pelt headdress a tail ancestor personified ...
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... blood glyph God C blood scrolls God C head variant of blood C personification head GI Kan - cross Blood Blood was represented in numerous ways ( Fig . 29 ) , but it is commonly indicated by a scroll- shaped form outlined with a contour ...
... blood glyph God C blood scrolls God C head variant of blood C personification head GI Kan - cross Blood Blood was represented in numerous ways ( Fig . 29 ) , but it is commonly indicated by a scroll- shaped form outlined with a contour ...
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... blood , it was burned in a brazier , for the gods apparently required that blood be transformed into smoke in order to consume it . Thus the icons of smoke and blood came to be indistinguishable in visual form ; both are rendered as a ...
... blood , it was burned in a brazier , for the gods apparently required that blood be transformed into smoke in order to consume it . Thus the icons of smoke and blood came to be indistinguishable in visual form ; both are rendered as a ...
Table des matières
Introduction | 6 |
Chapters | 63 |
Kingship and the Rites of Accession | 103 |
Droits d'auteur | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Linda Schele,Mary Ellen Miller Affichage d'extraits - 1986 |
The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Linda Schele,Mary Ellen Miller Affichage d'extraits - 1986 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
accession ahau appears architectural Art Museum ball ballcourt ballgame ballplayers belt Bird Jaguar blood bloodletting body Bonampak cahal captives carved Cauac Celestial Monster celt ceramic Chac-Xib-Chac Chan-Bahlum Classic Maya cloth Copan costume death depicted dressed earflare Early Classic period event FIGURE figurine Floyd Lounsbury glyph gods Guatemala head headband headdress Hero Twins Hieroglyphic Honduras human Hunahpu imagery inscriptions jade Jester Kan-Xul katun Kimbell Kimbell Art Museum king Late Classic period Late Preclassic period Leiden Plaque Lintel Long Count lord Lowlands maize mask Maya art Maya civilization Mesoamerica monuments moon Olmec Pacal painted Palenque panel Pauahtun pectoral personified Piedras Negras Pilas PLATE Popol Vuh portrait recorded rite ritual ruler sacrifice scene scribes scroll sculpture Seibal shell Shield Jaguar Stela stone Structure supernatural symbols Tikal Uaxactun Underworld Venus Vision Serpent warrior water-lily wears World Tree worn Xibalba Yax-Pac Yaxchilan zoomorphic