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| ISBN: | 0585109745
9780585109749
0253334004
9780253334008
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-301) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | "This introduction to the Mexica (or Aztec) cosmos explores sacrifice as both the foundation for and an ethical response to existence in the richly textured world of sixteenth-century Mexico. Drawing on archaeological remains, sculptures, pictorial and calendrical codices, and original translations of Nahuatl poetry and folktales, Kay Almere Read describes a world in which every being was allotted a specific lifetime and where sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book presents a convincing interpretation of what sacrifice meant in the religious life of the Mexica people - and how human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Read, Kay Almere, 1944- Time and sacrifice in the Aztec cosmos. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1998 0253334004
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