Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos (Religion in North America)
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Book details
- Author
- Kay Almere Read
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Mexico
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780253334008
- ISBN-10
- 0253334004
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos (Religion in North America)
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ISBN: 0253334004
Author: Read, Kay Almere
Condition: New
This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
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