The Quetzal And The Macaw
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The Quetzal And The Macaw
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Author : David Rains Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1992
The Quetzal And The Macaw written by David Rains Wallace and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Nature categories.
Wallace details the unbelievable diversity of life in this rich land: pumas, ocelots, peccaries, howler monkeys--and the scarlet macaws and resplendent quetzals, the birds symbolizing two of Costa Rica's earliest parks. The park system became the nucleus of a socio-political network that has successfully battled loggers, miners, ranchers, and government development agencies. Enlivened throughout by the voices of people actually involved in establishing and managing the parks and preserves, Wallace's narrative is by turns suspenseful, humorous, and inspiring.
The Quetzal And The Macaw
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Author : David Rains Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1992
The Quetzal And The Macaw written by David Rains Wallace and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Nature categories.
Wallace details the unbelievable diversity of life in this rich land: pumas, ocelots, peccaries, howler monkeys--and the scarlet macaws and resplendent quetzals, the birds symbolizing two of Costa Rica's earliest parks. The park system became the nucleus of a socio-political network that has successfully battled loggers, miners, ranchers, and government development agencies. Enlivened throughout by the voices of people actually involved in establishing and managing the parks and preserves, Wallace's narrative is by turns suspenseful, humorous, and inspiring.
Sofia And The Quetzal Bird
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Author : Adam Guillain
language : en
Publisher: Raintree
Release Date : 2016-01-28
Sofia And The Quetzal Bird written by Adam Guillain and has been published by Raintree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-28 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Sofia travels back to her birthplace in Guatemala and learns more about her family's culture with the help of a quetzal bird.
Wild Earth
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Wild Earth written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biodiversity conservation categories.
Star Gods Of The Maya
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Author : Susan Milbrath
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
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 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
“A prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship” on Maya astronomy and religion (Journal of Interdisciplinary History). 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 Pre-Columbian 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 Pre-Columbian 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 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. “Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines.” ―Isis “Destined to become a standard reference work on Maya archeoastronomy . . . Utterly comprehensive.” —Andrea Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Smoke Macaw And Lady Rainbow
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Author : Antony Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2023-02-28
Smoke Macaw And Lady Rainbow written by Antony Mitchell and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Fiction categories.
Mexico, end of the first millennium CE. Following the collapse of the Mayan civilisation, a rebirth is taking place. Temples and pyramids once again reach towards the sky, markets thrive and wealthy patrons commission imposing works of art. Lord Smoke Macaw, visionary ruler of Place of the Quetzal Serpent, pursues a policy of non-aggression towards other Maya populations. His contentment reaches its fullest when he meets the princess Lady Rainbow, of obscure coastal New Dawn. Yet the threat of military conflict suddenly arises, in the form of Lady Death Bat, warrior-queen of Black Stone. She plans a campaign of conquest, to culminate in her becoming ruler of a Mayan empire. Her theft of Quetzal Serpent's sacred Heart of the Jaguar unleashes a series of epic events that will determine the future of the whole region. Aided by Lady Rainbow and his wise shaman-priest Jungle Turtle, Smoke Macaw must undergo various trials to reassert to all his right to rule. Too, he must maintain constant vigilance over Lady Rainbow, she the target of an obsessive Lady Death Bat. Will the royal lovers thwart Lady Death Bat's plans, and finally be free to wed on Quetzal Serpent's temple steps?
Literature And The Language Arts
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Author : Edmund J. Farrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Literature And The Language Arts written by Edmund J. Farrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Language arts categories.
The Ancient American World
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Author : William Leonard Fash
language : en
Publisher: Steck-Vaughn
Release Date : 2005
The Ancient American World written by William Leonard Fash and has been published by Steck-Vaughn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Middle schoolers never had it so good! Complete your ancient history collection with this series for students in grades 6 -8. A unique and engrossing collaboration between scholars and young adult fiction writers, The World in Ancient Times covers the ancient world from India to Greece, America to China. Each chapter is filled to the brim with the widest possible range of primary sources, giving each history lesson the texture missing from many general introductions.
Ritual And Power In Stone
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Author : Julia Guernsey
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Ritual And Power In Stone written by Julia Guernsey 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 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This Izapan style of carving and kingly representation appears at numerous sites across the Pacific slope and piedmont of Mexico and Guatemala, making it possible to trace political and economic corridors of communication during the Late Preclassic period. In this book, Julia Guernsey offers a masterful art historical analysis of the Izapan style monuments and their integral role in developing and communicating the institution of divine kingship. She looks specifically at how rulers expressed political authority by erecting monuments that recorded their performance of rituals in which they communicated with the supernatural realm in the persona of the avian deity. She also considers how rulers used the monuments to structure their built environment and create spaces for ritual and politically charged performances. Setting her discussion in a broader context, Guernsey also considers how the Izapan style monuments helped to motivate and structure some of the dramatic, pan-regional developments of the Late Preclassic period, including the forging of a codified language of divine kingship. This pioneering investigation, which links monumental art to the matrices of political, economic, and supernatural exchange, offers an important new understanding of a region, time period, and group of monuments that played a key role in the history of Mesoamerica and continue to intrigue scholars within the field of Mesoamerican studies.
Trees Of Paradise And Pillars Of The World
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Author : Elizabeth A. Newsome
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-05
Trees Of Paradise And Pillars Of The World written by Elizabeth A. Newsome 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 2010-07-05 with Social Science categories.
Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mute testimony to state rituals that linked the king's power to rule with the rhythms and renewal of time, the stelae document the ritual acts of rulers who sacrificed, danced, and experienced visionary ecstasy in connection with celebrations marking the end of major calendrical cycles. The kings' portraits are carved in relief on the main surfaces of the stones, deifying them as incarnations of the mythical trees of life. Based on a thorough analysis of the imagery and inscriptions of seven stelae erected in the Great Plaza at Copan, Honduras, by the Classic Period ruler "18-Rabbit-God K," this ambitious study argues that stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and the cosmology inherent in their vision of cyclical time. After an overview of the archaeology and history of Copan and the reign and monuments of "18-Rabbit-God K," Elizabeth Newsome interprets the iconography and inscriptions on the stelae, illustrating the way they fulfilled a coordinated vision of the king's ceremonial role in Copan's period-ending rites. She also links their imagery to key Maya concepts about the origin of the universe, expressed in the cosmologies and mythic lore of ancient and living Maya peoples.