Time and sacrifice in the Aztec cosmos /
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| Author / Creator: | Read, Kay Almere, 1944- |
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1998. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 308 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion in North America Religion in North America. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105492 |
| Summary: | <p>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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 308 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-301) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585109745 9780585109749 0253334004 9780253334008 |