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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... personification heads personification head Mat in plain and personified forms FIGURE 21 humans and zoomorphs and drilling holes in pottery . Much of the deliberate damage done to the faces of kingly portraits and other sculpture was the ...
... personification heads personification head Mat in plain and personified forms FIGURE 21 humans and zoomorphs and drilling holes in pottery . Much of the deliberate damage done to the faces of kingly portraits and other sculpture was the ...
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... personified form of flint , how- ever , have skeletal features and circular indentations in the contour , in imitation of the edge of chipped eccentric flints ( Fig . 23d ) ; these distinguish personified flints from the Cauac Monster ...
... personified form of flint , how- ever , have skeletal features and circular indentations in the contour , in imitation of the edge of chipped eccentric flints ( Fig . 23d ) ; these distinguish personified flints from the Cauac Monster ...
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... personified as though to em- phasize that the Vision Serpent is an icon of power . PLATE 120a realized Vision SINO QINIO personified beard PLATE 120b Vision Serpent Moon Goddess moon sign moon rabbit the god of the trumpet announcing ...
... personified as though to em- phasize that the Vision Serpent is an icon of power . PLATE 120a realized Vision SINO QINIO personified beard PLATE 120b Vision Serpent Moon Goddess moon sign moon rabbit the god of the trumpet announcing ...
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