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 34
... architectural sculpture , also using symbols indistin- guishable from those used in the Gulf Coast Olmec region , flourished at the newly discovered site at Teopantequanitla and nearby Chalcatzingo . The stone stela , the most important ...
... architectural sculpture , also using symbols indistin- guishable from those used in the Gulf Coast Olmec region , flourished at the newly discovered site at Teopantequanitla and nearby Chalcatzingo . The stone stela , the most important ...
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... architectural terracing Pot depicting Chac - Xib - Chac and the Pauahtuns and interior benches ( Fig . 13b ) as a logical motivation for placing figures on different levels . The Kimbell wall panel ( Pl . 86 ) uses this architectural ...
... architectural terracing Pot depicting Chac - Xib - Chac and the Pauahtuns and interior benches ( Fig . 13b ) as a logical motivation for placing figures on different levels . The Kimbell wall panel ( Pl . 86 ) uses this architectural ...
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... architectural opening into the interior of the temple . When the World Tree grows up through the temple to penetrate cosmic levels , it moves either through this stepped depression or another form of the gate — the Skeletal Maw , such ...
... architectural opening into the interior of the temple . When the World Tree grows up through the temple to penetrate cosmic levels , it moves either through this stepped depression or another form of the gate — the Skeletal Maw , such ...
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