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Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, Lord of the Smoking
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2008-07-01
- Pages
- 420
- ISBN
- 9780870819070
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
ISBN-10
0870819070
ISBN-13
9780870819070
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63866265
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God : Tezcatlipoca, &Quot;Lord of the Smoking Mirror&Quot;
Number of Pages
420 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Latin America / Mexico, Archaeology, Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Book Series
Mesoamerican Worlds Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
29 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"An extraordinarily thorough and meticulous analysis of one of the principal gods of the Aztec pantheon. . . . The book will stand as a major contribution to our understanding of Mesoamerican religion." -- Journal of Latin American Anthropology, "An extraordinarily thorough and meticulous analysis of one of the principal gods of the Aztec pantheon. . . . The book will stand as a major contribution to our understanding of Mesoamerican religion." - Journal of Latin American Anthropology
Dewey Decimal
299/.73
Synopsis
Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a masterful study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon., Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a masterful study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon. An enigmatic and melodramatic figure, the Lord of the Smoking Mirror was both drunken seducer and mutilated transgressor and although he severely punished those who violated pre-Columbian moral codes, he also received mortal confessions. A patron deity to kings and warriors as well as a protector of slaves, Tezcatlipoca often clashed in epic confrontations with his "enemy brother" Quetzalcoatl, the famed Feathered Serpent. Yet these powers of Mesoamerican mythology collaborated to create the world, and their common attributes hint at a dual character. In a sophisticated, systematic tour through the sources and problems related to Tezcatlipoca's protean powers and shifting meanings, Olivier guides readers through the symbolic names of this great god, from his representation on skins and stones to his relationship to ritual knives and other deities. Drawing upon iconographic material, chronicles written in Spanish and in Nahuatl, and the rich contributions of ethnography, Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God - like the mirror of Tezcatlipoca in which the fates of mortals were reflected - reveals an important but obscured portion of the cosmology of pre-Columbian Mexico.
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