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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... Xibalba , a journey that each human being faced . The Hero Twins , greatly skilled as ballplayers , disturbed the Lords of Death with their play and so are summoned to Xibalba to take part in a series of trials . Unlike their father and ...
... Xibalba , a journey that each human being faced . The Hero Twins , greatly skilled as ballplayers , disturbed the Lords of Death with their play and so are summoned to Xibalba to take part in a series of trials . Unlike their father and ...
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... Xibalba and rise into the heavens , where the sun belongs to one twin and the moon to the other . 3 Scenes from these myths were painted on funerary pottery that accompanied the dead to the grave . The Twins ' adventures described the ...
... Xibalba and rise into the heavens , where the sun belongs to one twin and the moon to the other . 3 Scenes from these myths were painted on funerary pottery that accompanied the dead to the grave . The Twins ' adventures described the ...
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... Xibalba . This symbolic representation of death as a fall into Xibalba was not limited to Palenque or to the Late Classic period . The same idea appears in a different form on a carved bone of Early Classic style now in The American ...
... Xibalba . This symbolic representation of death as a fall into Xibalba was not limited to Palenque or to the Late Classic period . The same idea appears in a different form on a carved bone of Early Classic style now in The American ...
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 glyph gods Guatemala head headband headdress Hero Twins Hieroglyphic Honduras human imagery inscriptions jade Jester Kan-Xul katun Kimbell Kimbell Art Museum king Late Classic period Late Preclassic period Leiden Plaque Lintel Long Count lord Lowland maize mask Maya art Maya civilization Mesoamerica Mexico Late Classic 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 Tlaloc Uaxactun Underworld Venus Vision Serpent warrior water-lily wears World Tree worn Xibalba Yax-Pac Yaxchilan zoomorphic