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Art And Myth Of The Ancient Maya

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Author : Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-25

Art And Myth Of The Ancient Maya written by Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-25 with Art categories.

This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Maya art and myth. Using materials gathered across Mesoamerica, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos bridges the gap between written texts and artistic representations, identifying key mythical subjects and uncovering their variations in narratives and visual depictions. Central characters—including a secluded young goddess, a malevolent grandmother, a dead father, and the young gods who became the sun and the moon—are identified in pottery, sculpture, mural painting, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Highlighting such previously overlooked topics as sexuality and generational struggles, this beautifully illustrated book paves the way for a new understanding of Maya myths and their lavish expression in ancient art.

Art And Myth Of The Ancient Maya

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Author : Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-25

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Orthography -- Introduction -- 1 Image and Text -- 2 Pictorial and Textual Sources -- 3 Mesoamerican Cosmogony -- 4 The Maiden -- 5 The Grandmother -- 6 The Sun's Opponents -- 7 The Sun -- 8 The Perfect Youth -- 9 The Father -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Art And Myth Of The Ancient Maya

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Author : Oswaldo Fernando Chinchilla Mazariegos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017

Art And Myth Of The Ancient Maya written by Oswaldo Fernando Chinchilla Mazariegos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Central America categories.

This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Maya art and myth. Using materials gathered across Mesoamerica, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos bridges the gap between written texts and artistic representations, identifying key mythical subjects and uncovering their variations in narratives and visual depictions. Central characters-including a secluded young goddess, a malevolent grandmother, a dead father, and the young gods who became the sun and the moon-are identified in pottery, sculpture, mural painting, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Highlighting such previously overlooked topics as sexuality and generational struggles, this beautifully illustrated book paves the way for a new understanding of Maya myths and their lavish expression in ancient art.

The Myths Of The Popol Vuh In Cosmology Art And Ritual

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Author : Holley Moyes
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2021-11-08

The Myths Of The Popol Vuh In Cosmology Art And Ritual written by Holley Moyes and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with History categories.

"Integrated and comparative approach to the Popol vuh, analyzing myths to elucidate ancient Maya past using archaeological and ethnographic information to shed light on the text. Combining interpretations of myths with analyses of archaeological, iconographic, epigraphic, and ethnographic resources, demonstrates how mythologies contribute to the analysis and interpretation"--

Star Gods Of The Maya

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Author : Susan Milbrath
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01

Star Gods Of The Maya written by Susan Milbrath and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Social Science categories.

Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Precolumbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices [painted books], and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture.

Fiery Pool

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Author : Daniel Finamore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-01-01

Fiery Pool written by Daniel Finamore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Caribbean Area categories.

impact on Maya cross-cultural contacts, trading practices, and power dynamics. Essays by prominent scholars provide an interdisciplinary context for understanding Maya art as well as new interpretations of traditional iconography and symbolism." --Book Jacket.

Art And Myth In Ancient Greece

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Author : T. H. Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2022-01-20

Art And Myth In Ancient Greece written by T. H. Carpenter and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-20 with History categories.

The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone often pre-date references to the myths in literature, or offer alternative, unfamiliar tellings. In some cases visual art provides our only evidence, as there is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of such important stories as the Fall of Troy, or Theseus and the Minotaur. T. H. Carpenters book is the first comprehensive, scholarly yet succinct survey of myth as it appears in Greek art. Copiously illustrated, it is an essential reference work for everybody interested in the art, drama, poetry or religion of ancient Greece. With this handbook as a guide, readers will be able to identify scenes from myth across the full breadth of archaic and classical Greek art.

A Maya Universe In Stone

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Author : Stephen Houston
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2021-12-28

A Maya Universe In Stone written by Stephen Houston and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-28 with Art categories.

The first study devoted to a single sculptor in ancient America, as understood through four unprovenanced masterworks traced to a small sector of Guatemala. In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called Laxtunich, turning his find into the mystery at the center of this book. The lintels he discovered there, long since looted, are probably of a set with two others that are among the masterworks of Maya sculpture from the Classic period. Using fieldwork, physical evidence, and Lamb’s expedition notes, the authors identify a small area with archaeological sites where the carvings were likely produced. Remarkably, the vividly colored lintels, replete with dynastic and cosmic information, can be assigned to a carver, Mayuy, who sculpted his name on two of them. To an extent nearly unique in ancient America, Mayuy can be studied over time as his style developed and his artistic ambition grew. An in-depth analysis of Laxtunich Lintel 1 examines how Mayuy grafted celestial, seasonal, and divine identities onto a local magnate and his overlord from the kingdom of Yaxchilan, Mexico. This volume contextualizes the lintels and points the way to their reprovenancing and, as an ultimate aim, repatriation to Guatemala.

Popol Vuh

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Author : Dennis Tedlock
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2017

Popol Vuh written by Dennis Tedlock and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Quiché Indians categories.

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