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Pilgrimage To Broken Mountain
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Author : Alan R. Sandstrom
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2023-01-20
Pilgrimage To Broken Mountain written by Alan R. Sandstrom 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 2023-01-20 with Social Science categories.
An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico. Punctuated with elaborate ritual offerings dedicated to the forces responsible for rain, seeds, crop fertility, and the well-being of all people, these pilgrimages are the highest and most elaborate form of Nahua devotion and reveal a sophisticated religious philosophy that places human beings in intimate contact with what Westerners call the forces of nature. Alan and Pamela Sandstrom document them for the younger Nahua generation, who live in a world where many are lured away from their communities by wage labor in urban Mexico and the United States. Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain contains richly detailed descriptions and analyses of ritual procedures as well as translations from the Nahuatl of core myths, chants performed before decorated altars, and statements from participants. Particular emphasis is placed on analyzing the role of sacred paper figures that are produced by the thousands for each pilgrimage. The work contains drawings of these cuttings of spirit entities along with hundreds of color photographs illustrating how they are used throughout the pilgrimages. The analysis reveals the monist philosophy that underlies Nahua religious practice in which altars, dancing, chanting, and the paper figures themselves provide direct access to the sacred. In the context of their pilgrimage traditions, the ritual practices of Nahua religion show one way that people interact effectively with the forces responsible for not only their own prosperity but also the very survival of humanity. A magnum opus with respect to Nahua religion and religious practice, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain is a significant contribution to several fields, including but not limited to Indigenous literatures of Mesoamerica, Nahuatl studies, Latinx and Chicanx studies, and religious studies.
Indigenous Science And Technology
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Author : Kelly S. McDonough
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2024-05-21
Indigenous Science And Technology written by Kelly S. McDonough and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with Social Science categories.
This is a book about how Nahuas—native speakers of Nahuatl, the common language of the Aztec Empire and of more than 2.5 million Indigenous people today—have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods. It is a deep dive into Nahua theoretical and practical inquiry related to the environment, as well as the dynamic networks in which Nahuas create, build upon, and share knowledges, practices, tools, and objects to meet social, political, and economic needs. In this work, author Kelly S. McDonough addresses Nahua understanding of plants and animals, medicine and ways of healing, water and water control, alphabetic writing, and cartography. Interludes between the chapters offer short biographical sketches and interviews with contemporary Nahua scientists, artists, historians, and writers, accompanied by their photos. The book also includes more than twenty full-color images from sources including the Florentine Codex, a sixteenth-century collaboration between Indigenous and Spanish scholars considered the most comprehensive extant source on the pre-Hispanic and early colonial Aztec (Mexica) world. In Mexico today, the terms “Indigenous” and “science and technology” are rarely paired together. When they are, the latter tend to be framed as unrecoverable or irreparably damaged pre-Hispanic traditions, relics confined to a static past. In Indigenous Science and Technology, McDonough works against such erroneous and racialized discourses with a focus on Nahua environmental engagements and relationalities, systems of communication, and cultural preservation and revitalization. Attention to these overlooked or obscured knowledges provides a better understanding of Nahua culture, past and present, as well as the entangled local and global histories in which they were—and are—vital actors.
The Sacred Mountain
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Author : John Snelling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Sacred Mountain written by John Snelling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Buddhism categories.
(4) Truth of the path leading to the annihilation of suffering.
The Serpent S Plumes
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Author : Adam W. Coon
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2024-05-01
The Serpent S Plumes written by Adam W. Coon and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Serpent's Plumes analyzes contemporary Nahua cultural production, principally bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish xochitlajtoli, or "poetry," written from the 1980s to the present. Adam W. Coon draws on Nahua perspectives as a decolonizing theoretical framework to argue that Nahua writers deploy unique worldviews—namely, ixtlamatilistli ("knowledge with the face," which highlights the value of personal experiences); yoltlajlamikilistli ("knowledge with the heart," which underscores the importance of affective intelligence); and tlaixpan ("that which is in front," which presents the past as lying ahead of a subject rather than behind). The views of ixtlamatilistli, yoltlajlamikilistli, and tlaixpan are key in Nahua struggles and effectively challenge those who attempt to marginalize Native knowledge production.
A Concise History Of The Aztecs
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Author : Susan Kellogg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-15
A Concise History Of The Aztecs written by Susan Kellogg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-15 with History categories.
Moving beyond common misperceptions, this book sheds new light on Aztec history and civilization.
Poacher S Pilgrimage
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Author : Alastair McIntosh
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-03-09
Poacher S Pilgrimage written by Alastair McIntosh and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-09 with Religion categories.
The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They host an astonishing range of mysterious structures - stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and 'temples' from the Celtic era. Over a twelve-day pilgrimage, often in appalling conditions, Alastair McIntosh returns to the islands of his childhood and explores the meaning of these places. Traversing moors and mountains, struggling through torrential rivers, he walks from the most southerly tip of Harris to the northerly Butt of Lewis. The book is a walk through space and time, across a physical landscape and into a spiritual one. As he battled with his own ability to endure some of the toughest terrain in Britain, he met with the healing power of the land and its communities. This is a moving book, a powerful reflection not simply of this extraordinary place and its people met along the way, but of imaginative hope for humankind.
The Holy Mountain The Story Of A Pilgrimage To Lake Manas And Of Initiation On Mount Kailash In Tibet
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Author : Bhagwan Hamsa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-06
The Holy Mountain The Story Of A Pilgrimage To Lake Manas And Of Initiation On Mount Kailash In Tibet written by Bhagwan Hamsa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06 with Kailas, Mount (China) categories.
Song Of The Mountains My Pilgrimage To Maa Ganga
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Author : Shakuntala Rajagopal
language : en
Publisher: Hugo House Publishers, Ltd.
Release Date : 2015-04-06
Song Of The Mountains My Pilgrimage To Maa Ganga written by Shakuntala Rajagopal and has been published by Hugo House Publishers, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
What Happens When Those Things that are Supposed to Comfort You—Don’t? When Shakuntala Rajagopal lost her husband of forty-seven years in 2010, she was devastated. A devout Hindu, she followed what she had learned since birth. Her family celebrated their beloved father, uncle, and mentor through the many rituals sending him off to his new life. Shakuntala even travelled to India to lovingly give her husband’s ashes to the oceans off the southern coast of India. As her husband’s last ashes floated away, Shaku felt her will to go on float away with him. At the age of seventy, she decided that she needed to revisit her own devout spirituality and take one of the more grueling but one of the most spiritual of all pilgrimages in India—the Char Dham—where she could bathe in the sacred waters of the River Ganges, Maa Ganga. She knew it would be her chance for a rebirth, a new beginning. But she almost doesn’t make it. Song of the Mountains: My Pilgrimage to Maa Ganga is a story of survival, changing and challenging any reader in the way he or she approaches major changes in life. Rajagopal’s story is one that will empower the reader to take action and go forward in their own life, whatever the circumstance they are facing.
The Holy Mountain
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Author : Hamsa (Bhagwan)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934
The Holy Mountain written by Hamsa (Bhagwan) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with Kailas, Mount (China) categories.
The Holy Mountain
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Author : Bhagwan Shri Hamsa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
The Holy Mountain written by Bhagwan Shri Hamsa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with categories.