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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Page 139
... Hunahpu and Xbalanque took their blowguns and began to shoot their prey , but the birds did not fall . Each one became lodged in a tree , and the older twins had to scale the tree to retrieve them . As they did so , the tree magically ...
... Hunahpu and Xbalanque took their blowguns and began to shoot their prey , but the birds did not fall . Each one became lodged in a tree , and the older twins had to scale the tree to retrieve them . As they did so , the tree magically ...
Page 252
... Hunahpu injudiciously loses his head to a killer bat . Xbalanque , thinking quickly , replaces it with a pumpkin , and then convinces a rabbit to curl up and imitate the ball during play so it can lead the lords of the Underworld away ...
... Hunahpu injudiciously loses his head to a killer bat . Xbalanque , thinking quickly , replaces it with a pumpkin , and then convinces a rabbit to curl up and imitate the ball during play so it can lead the lords of the Underworld away ...
Page 258
... Hunahpu's head was severed and hung by the Underworld lords in the ballcourt as a trophy . Before the head was restored to Hunahpu's body , Xbalanque substituted a pumpkin for his brother's head , and then devised a plan with a rabbit ...
... Hunahpu's head was severed and hung by the Underworld lords in the ballcourt as a trophy . Before the head was restored to Hunahpu's body , Xbalanque substituted a pumpkin for his brother's head , and then devised a plan with a rabbit ...
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