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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... rite . During both the Early and the Late Classic periods , this rite is recorded either in images or inscriptions at most sites ; around a.D. 780 , however , the Maya of the central Peten began depicting it in a new way ( Fig . IV . 2 ) ...
... rite . During both the Early and the Late Classic periods , this rite is recorded either in images or inscriptions at most sites ; around a.D. 780 , however , the Maya of the central Peten began depicting it in a new way ( Fig . IV . 2 ) ...
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... rite . Hair was bound up in the style usually shown on captives , and a long bone was often passed through the hair . Some such bone objects appear to have been sharpened for use as lancets , while others sim- ply signaled the wearer's ...
... rite . Hair was bound up in the style usually shown on captives , and a long bone was often passed through the hair . Some such bone objects appear to have been sharpened for use as lancets , while others sim- ply signaled the wearer's ...
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... rite ( Pl . 65a ) . The kneeling woman - neither the mother of Shield Jaguar II nor Lady Balam - Ix - is yet another of Bird Jaguar's wives . She wears a huipil woven in the same pattern as that of Lady Xoc on Lintel 24. Jade jewelry ...
... rite ( Pl . 65a ) . The kneeling woman - neither the mother of Shield Jaguar II nor Lady Balam - Ix - is yet another of Bird Jaguar's wives . She wears a huipil woven in the same pattern as that of Lady Xoc on Lintel 24. Jade jewelry ...
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