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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... ritual objects , but not on public monuments . Finally , the stela format was rarely used in the Lowlands during the Late Preclassic period . The High- landers , on the other hand , did not use much architectural sculpture . It was not ...
... ritual objects , but not on public monuments . Finally , the stela format was rarely used in the Lowlands during the Late Preclassic period . The High- landers , on the other hand , did not use much architectural sculpture . It was not ...
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... ritual actually appeared , and when the ritual ended , he was gone . The power of ritual to incarnate the supernatural may also explain why the king could appear in so many different guises . It appears that the king was conceived to be ...
... ritual actually appeared , and when the ritual ended , he was gone . The power of ritual to incarnate the supernatural may also explain why the king could appear in so many different guises . It appears that the king was conceived to be ...
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Dynasty And Ritual In Maya Art Linda Schele, Mary Ellen Miller. Ritual was apparently more than sequenced activity or the symbol of sacred interaction . On Dos Pilas Stela 25 ( Fig . IV.3 ) the Maya themselves tell us that ritual ...
Dynasty And Ritual In Maya Art Linda Schele, Mary Ellen Miller. Ritual was apparently more than sequenced activity or the symbol of sacred interaction . On Dos Pilas Stela 25 ( Fig . IV.3 ) the Maya themselves tell us that ritual ...
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