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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... Tlaloc mask blood scroll shield flayed area spear skin flayed area year sign Vision Serpents Tlaloc . blood scroll rear head Sky The symbol for sky is a band divided into compartments by vertical bars ( Fig . 26 ) . Each compartment is ...
... Tlaloc mask blood scroll shield flayed area spear skin flayed area year sign Vision Serpents Tlaloc . blood scroll rear head Sky The symbol for sky is a band divided into compartments by vertical bars ( Fig . 26 ) . Each compartment is ...
Page 177
... Tlaloc signs , 7 signals that she is engaged in a very special bloodletting rite that will eventually include captive sacrifice . She pulls a thorn - lined rope through the wound in her perforated tongue , letting the rope fall into a ...
... Tlaloc signs , 7 signals that she is engaged in a very special bloodletting rite that will eventually include captive sacrifice . She pulls a thorn - lined rope through the wound in her perforated tongue , letting the rope fall into a ...
Page 187
... Tlaloc head , a ray and trapeze symbol and cut feathers . This tasseled headdress is a signal of bloodletting and sacrificial rites . THE INSCRIPTION The text consists of two sentences ( Pl . 62c ) , one relating to Shield Jaguar , the ...
... Tlaloc head , a ray and trapeze symbol and cut feathers . This tasseled headdress is a signal of bloodletting and sacrificial rites . THE INSCRIPTION The text consists of two sentences ( Pl . 62c ) , one relating to Shield Jaguar , the ...
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