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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... Water - lily Monster Personified eccentric flint from Tablet of the Slave , Palenque In Lowland Maya languages , the words for water - lily and lake are homonyms , hence , the water- lily and its personifications are natural symbols for ...
... Water - lily Monster Personified eccentric flint from Tablet of the Slave , Palenque In Lowland Maya languages , the words for water - lily and lake are homonyms , hence , the water- lily and its personifications are natural symbols for ...
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... Water - lily Jaguar This form of GIII is entirely zoomorphic , but he walks and acts like a human . His special attribute is a water - lily blossom or leaf lying atop his head , which may be a reference to the jaguar's love of water ...
... Water - lily Jaguar This form of GIII is entirely zoomorphic , but he walks and acts like a human . His special attribute is a water - lily blossom or leaf lying atop his head , which may be a reference to the jaguar's love of water ...
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... water - lily pendant frequently seen on scribes ; the face is rendered essentially as human , but it has the simian features of the Monkey Scribe . This monkey face was intentionally made ugly , but like a Renaissance grotesque by ...
... water - lily pendant frequently seen on scribes ; the face is rendered essentially as human , but it has the simian features of the Monkey Scribe . This monkey face was intentionally made ugly , but like a Renaissance grotesque by ...
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