Blood of Kings: Dynasty And Ritual In Maya ArtWW Norton, 1986 - 335 pages "[A] work as remarkable for its text as for the photographs and drawings that illustrate it."—Octavio Paz, The New York Review of Books A comprehensive guide to the Maya which reveals kingship rites, ritual warfare, with a vast array of color plates and drawings. |
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... Classic Maya elite ; and the much - lamented Jeffrey Miller , who died early in his career , did the same with his extremely important study of the iconography and epigraphy of mirrors , which were manipulated and used by Classic rulers ...
... Classic Maya elite ; and the much - lamented Jeffrey Miller , who died early in his career , did the same with his extremely important study of the iconography and epigraphy of mirrors , which were manipulated and used by Classic rulers ...
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... Classic Maya civilization emerge ? For most of the century , and because of observation of the modern Maya , the notion of small populations supported by slash - and - burn agriculture had thrived — in notable contrast to ... ANCIENT MAYA 25.
... Classic Maya civilization emerge ? For most of the century , and because of observation of the modern Maya , the notion of small populations supported by slash - and - burn agriculture had thrived — in notable contrast to ... ANCIENT MAYA 25.
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Dynasty And Ritual In Maya Art Linda Schele, Mary Ellen Miller. the Maya glyph for sun or day , were placed at the base of the lowest tiers of these pyramids . A long ... Classic Maya and Teotihuacanos MODERN INVENTION OF THE ANCIENT MAYA 27.
Dynasty And Ritual In Maya Art Linda Schele, Mary Ellen Miller. the Maya glyph for sun or day , were placed at the base of the lowest tiers of these pyramids . A long ... Classic Maya and Teotihuacanos MODERN INVENTION OF THE ANCIENT MAYA 27.
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 Aucun aperçu disponible - 1986 |
Blood of Kings: Dynasty And Ritual In Maya Art Linda Schele,Mary Ellen Miller Aucun aperçu disponible - 2000 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
accession ahau appears architectural Art Museum ball ballcourt ballgame ballplayers belt Bird Jaguar bloodletting body Bonampak cahal captives carved Cauac Celestial Monster celt ceramic Chac-Xib-Chac Chan-Bahlum Classic Maya cloth Copan costume Cylindrical vessel death depicted dressed earflare Early Classic period event FIGURE figurine front 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 Lowland 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 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