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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... head ; it is not a fusion of two bodies . In contrast to the front head , the rear head is usually inverted because it was carried as a burden by the crocodile . This head has a blunt snout , fleshy eyes and a skeletal lower jaw . The ...
... head ; it is not a fusion of two bodies . In contrast to the front head , the rear head is usually inverted because it was carried as a burden by the crocodile . This head has a blunt snout , fleshy eyes and a skeletal lower jaw . The ...
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... head . The drawing reverses the standard reading direction , with the head facing right . This personification has the small dot of the ahau head on the cheek but has the dotted circle of the cauac sign on the shoulder . It is not known ...
... head . The drawing reverses the standard reading direction , with the head facing right . This personification has the small dot of the ahau head on the cheek but has the dotted circle of the cauac sign on the shoulder . It is not known ...
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... head with a jade ornament hanging from its mouth . The headdress , like the belt , is a critical part of the costume . It was constructed on a cap lined with jade cylinders and beads . A side flange was built on either side of the head ...
... head with a jade ornament hanging from its mouth . The headdress , like the belt , is a critical part of the costume . It was constructed on a cap lined with jade cylinders and beads . A side flange was built on either side of the head ...
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