Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

Kay Almere Read

ISBN 10: 0253334004 / ISBN 13: 9780253334008

Published by Indiana University Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253334004
• ISBN 13: 9780253334008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.