Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

Read, Kay Almere

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ISBN 10: 0253334004 ISBN 13: 9780253334008

Published by Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.: Indiana Univ Pr, 1998

Language: English

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Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

Publisher

Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.: Indiana Univ Pr

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

0253334004

ISBN 13

9780253334008

Binding

Hardcover

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Very Good

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Very Good

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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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Kay Read is associate professor of comparative religions in the Religious Studies Department at DePaul University. She is the author of a number of articles on pre-Conquest religious traditions and is currently working on both a book on Mexica rulership and ethics and an encyclopedia of mesoamerican mythology.

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