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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... human in aspect , but they can carry animal features as part of their distinctive attributes . While they can be indistinguishable from living humans , they frequently have nonhuman square eyes , and their bodies have distinctive ...
... human in aspect , but they can carry animal features as part of their distinctive attributes . While they can be indistinguishable from living humans , they frequently have nonhuman square eyes , and their bodies have distinctive ...
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... human ritual , as depicted in Room 3 at Bonampak . When he occurs in anthropomorphic form , he has a normal human eye and a shell beard , but he lacks the fishfin of the GI form discussed above . His name , as recorded on pottery , is ...
... human ritual , as depicted in Room 3 at Bonampak . When he occurs in anthropomorphic form , he has a normal human eye and a shell beard , but he lacks the fishfin of the GI form discussed above . His name , as recorded on pottery , is ...
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... human , form . A com- bination of the God K smoking celt with a human portrait , carved on these two eccen- tric flints , is otherwise known only on two monumental sculptures : on the sarcophagus at Palenque , the same celt pierces the ...
... human , form . A com- bination of the God K smoking celt with a human portrait , carved on these two eccen- tric flints , is otherwise known only on two monumental sculptures : on the sarcophagus at Palenque , the same celt pierces 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