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 137
... cahal ; the three preceding glyphs record his per- sonal name . Cahals were regional governors , subject to a king , and this cahal first pledged fealty to Bird Jaguar , and lived to serve his son Shield Jaguar II in the same manner ...
... cahal ; the three preceding glyphs record his per- sonal name . Cahals were regional governors , subject to a king , and this cahal first pledged fealty to Bird Jaguar , and lived to serve his son Shield Jaguar II in the same manner ...
Page 138
... cahal title designated not only governors and war chiefs , but one of Chaan - muan's wives bears the title Lady Cahal , and here it also denotes the plump individual blowing the conch shell in Room 2 , whose simple dress suggests that ...
... cahal title designated not only governors and war chiefs , but one of Chaan - muan's wives bears the title Lady Cahal , and here it also denotes the plump individual blowing the conch shell in Room 2 , whose simple dress suggests that ...
Page 183
... cahal , or underlord , who ruled La Pasadita for him . Dressed in the symbolic array of Chac - Xib - Chac and wearing his father's name on his belt to declare his line of descent , Bird Jaguar drops a dotted stream of blood into a knot ...
... cahal , or underlord , who ruled La Pasadita for him . Dressed in the symbolic array of Chac - Xib - Chac and wearing his father's name on his belt to declare his line of descent , Bird Jaguar drops a dotted stream of blood into a knot ...
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