Author : Michael McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015048898269
Jaguar Skies
Michael McClure
Jaguar Skies
Jaguar Skies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Jaguar Skies book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Sky Knife
Marella Sands
Author : Marella Sands
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466889187
Sky Knife by Marella Sands Pdf
Sky Knife is a young man cursed with an unlucky name - a name his mother saw in a vision and pledged that her son would bear, to honor whatever destiny the gods had decreed. He hasn't the luck to take one of the usual paths charted for his people: farmer, soldier, merchant - all these roads are closed to him. The only hope for him lies in service at the King's Temple, where - he hopes - the gods will make clear his purpose in the world. But as a novice priest he has little hope of fulfilling his destiny. That is, until a human sacrifice goes horribly wrong, priests begin to die, and the skies fill with dangerous portents and visions. Magic of all sorts seems to cling to Sky Knife like a shroud, but if he is daring and lucky enough, he may just find out the answer - and, in doing so, win a place among his people. Sky Knife is a compelling and evocative portrait of ancient Mayan culture. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Index of American Periodical Verse 1977
Rafael Català,Sander W. Zulauf,Edward M. Cifelli,James D. Anderson
Author : Rafael Català,Sander W. Zulauf,Edward M. Cifelli,James D. Anderson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810811693
Index of American Periodical Verse 1977 by Rafael Català,Sander W. Zulauf,Edward M. Cifelli,James D. Anderson Pdf
The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important work for contemporary poetry research and is an objective measure of poetry that includes poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as other lands, cultures, and times. It reveals trends in the output of particular poets and the cultural influences they represent. The publications indexed cover a broad cross-section of poetry, literary, scholarly, popular, general, and "little" magazines, journals, and reviews.
Yaxchilan
Carolyn Elaine Tate
Author : Carolyn Elaine Tate
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0292770413
Yaxchilan by Carolyn Elaine Tate Pdf
"Art historian Carolyn Tate presents, in a well-organized and amply illustrated two-part format, a holistic treatment of a single archaeological site—the great ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan.... This is the most successful attempt to relate [art and architecture] within a Maya site that I have seen." —Ethnohistory As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever. This urgency underlies Yaxchilan: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City, Carolyn Tate's comprehensive catalog and analysis of all the city's extant buildings and sculptures. During a year of field work, Tate fully documented the appearance of the site as of 1987. For each sculpture and building, she records its discovery, present location, condition, measurements, and astronomical orientation and reconstructs its Long Counts and Julian dates from Calendar Rounds. Line drawings and photographs provide a visual document of the art and architecture of Yaxchilan. More than mere documentation, however, the book explores the phenomenon of art within Maya society. Tate establishes a general framework of cultural practices, spiritual beliefs, and knowledge likely to have been shared by eighth-century Maya people. The process of making public art is considered in relation to other modes of aesthetic expression, such as oral tradition and ritual. This kind of analysis is new in Maya studies and offers fresh insight into the function of these magnificent cities and the powerful role public art and architecture play in establishing cultural norms, in education in a semiliterate society, and in developing the personal and community identities of individuals. Several chapters cover the specifics of art and iconography at Yaxchilan as a basis for examining the creation of the city in the Late Classic period. Individual sculptures are attributed to the hands of single artists and workshops, thus aiding in dating several of the monuments. The significance of headdresses, backracks, and other costume elements seen on monuments is tied to specific rituals and fashions, and influence from other sites is traced. These analyses lead to a history of the design of the city under the reigns of Shield Jaguar (A.D. 681-741) and Bird Jaguar IV (A.D. 752-772). In Tate's view, Yaxchilan and other Maya cities were designed as both a theater for ritual activities and a nexus of public art and social structures that were crucial in defining the self within Maya society.
A Concise History of Mexico
Brian R. Hamnett
Author : Brian R. Hamnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521589169
A Concise History of Mexico by Brian R. Hamnett Pdf
An illustrated introduction to Mexico's historical and contemporary issues, problems and events.
Crowded by Beauty
David Schneider
Author : David Schneider
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520960992
Crowded by Beauty by David Schneider Pdf
Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and ’60s. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. Erudite, shy, and profoundly spiritual, his presence not only moved his immediate circle of Beat cohorts, but his powerful, startling, innovative work would come to impact American poetry to the present day. Drawing on Whalen’s journals and personal correspondence—particularly with Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, Kyger, Welch, and McClure —David Schneider shows how deeply bonded these intimates were, supporting one another in their art and their spiritual paths. Schneider, himself an ordained priest, provides an insider’s view of Whalen’s struggles and breakthroughs in his thirty years as a Zen monk. When Whalen died in 2002 as the retired Abbot of the Hartford Street Zen Center, his own teacher referred to him as a patriarch of the Western lineage of Buddhism. Crowded by Beauty chronicles the course of Whalen’s life, focusing on his unique, eccentric, humorous, and literary-religious practice.
The Esoteric Collection Book VII
Vashist Vaid
Author : Vashist Vaid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781312526259
The Esoteric Collection Book VII by Vashist Vaid Pdf
This 17th book named as "The Esoteric Collections - The Magical Wisdom of Solomon - Book VII" is an important book, which contain some of the evolutionary wisdom long forgotten upon this planet earth, which still exists in the ''Universal Ethereal library'', which includes the divine wisdom of the Great Prophet King Solomon. This book contain various outlines and glimpses of the valuable information, which has been previously unknown to many, and are mostly related to the unrevealed history of the human Root races, as well their sub and branch races, who for eons are evolving upon this planet earth as the incarnated members of various casts and creeds, for their gradual conscious expansion according to the evolutionary plan, which is based upon the universal law of ''will to do good''.
Maya Glyphs
Linda Schele
Author : Linda Schele
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780292736399
Maya Glyphs by Linda Schele Pdf
The key to the study of the language and history of the Classic Maya (A.D. 293–900) is the verb. Maya Glyphs: The Verbs is a comprehensive study of the verb morphology and syntax of the Maya writing system. Linda Schele's summary of methodology makes available in a single place many important discoveries and approaches to the Maya language. Hers is the first sourcebook to include so broad a range of dates and to identify for the first time so many Maya rulers and events. The admirably lucid text provides an excellent introduction to Maya hieroglyphics for the beginner, and, for the experienced Mayanist, it offers a fascinating explanation of methodology, including paraphrasing, and important information about syntactical structures, special verbal constructions, and literary conventions. Schele's extensive catalog of known verbal phrases is useful for a variety of purposes. Because it is organized according to verbal affix patterns, it provides the only available source for the distribution of such patterns in the writing system. At the same time it registers the date of each event, its agent and patient (if recorded), the dedication date of the monument on which the glyphs occur, and a pictorial illustration, rather than a T-number transcription, of each example. Extensive notes treating problems of dating, interpretation, and dynastic information contain theories about the meaning and function of the events recorded in the Maya inscriptions.
Dictionary of Nature Myths
Tamra Andrews
Author : Tamra Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195136777
Dictionary of Nature Myths by Tamra Andrews Pdf
Comprehensive and cross-referenced, this informative volume is a rich introduction to the world of nature as experienced by ancient peoples around the globe. 51 halftones.
Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca
Kent V. Flannery,Joyce Marcus
Author : Kent V. Flannery,Joyce Marcus
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703340
Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca by Kent V. Flannery,Joyce Marcus Pdf
Maya Calendar Origins
Prudence M. Rice
Author : Prudence M. Rice
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292774490
Maya Calendar Origins by Prudence M. Rice Pdf
In Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos, Prudence M. Rice proposed a new model of Maya political organization in which geopolitical seats of power rotated according to a 256-year calendar cycle known as the May. This fundamental connection between timekeeping and Maya political organization sparked Rice's interest in the origins of the two major calendars used by the ancient lowland Maya, one 260 days long, and the other having 365 days. In Maya Calendar Origins, she presents a provocative new thesis about the origins and development of the calendrical system. Integrating data from anthropology, archaeology, art history, astronomy, ethnohistory, myth, and linguistics, Rice argues that the Maya calendars developed about a millennium earlier than commonly thought, around 1200 BC, as an outgrowth of observations of the natural phenomena that scheduled the movements of late Archaic hunter-gatherer-collectors throughout what became Mesoamerica. She asserts that an understanding of the cycles of weather and celestial movements became the basis of power for early rulers, who could thereby claim "control" over supernatural cosmic forces. Rice shows how time became materialized—transformed into status objects such as monuments that encoded calendrical or temporal concerns—as well as politicized, becoming the foundation for societal order, political legitimization, and wealth. Rice's research also sheds new light on the origins of the Popol Vuh, which, Rice believes, encodes the history of the development of the Mesoamerican calendars. She also explores the connections between the Maya and early Olmec and Izapan cultures in the Isthmian region, who shared with the Maya the cosmovision and ideology incorporated into the calendrical systems.
Whitman's Wild Children
Neeli Cherkovski
Author : Neeli Cherkovski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106016477744
Whitman's Wild Children by Neeli Cherkovski Pdf
Jaguar Sky
Perry Laura (author)
Author : Perry Laura (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1301221945
Jaguar Sky by Perry Laura (author) Pdf
Exploring Ancient Skies
David H. Kelley,Eugene F. Milone
Author : David H. Kelley,Eugene F. Milone
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387263564
Exploring Ancient Skies by David H. Kelley,Eugene F. Milone Pdf
Exploring Ancient Skies brings together the methods of archaeology and the insights of modern astronomy to explore the science of astronomy as it was practiced in various cultures prior to the invention of the telescope. The book reviews an enormous and growing body of literature on the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, the Far East, and the New World (particularly Mesoamerica), putting the ancient astronomical materials into their archaeological and cultural contexts. The authors begin with an overview of the field and proceed to essential aspects of naked-eye astronomy, followed by an examination of specific cultures. The book concludes by taking into account the purposes of ancient astronomy: astrology, navigation, calendar regulation, and (not least) the understanding of our place and role in the universe. Skies are recreated to display critical events as they would have appeared to ancient observers - events such as the supernova of 1054, the 'lion horoscope' or the 'Star of Bethlehem.' Exploring Ancient Skies provides a comprehensive overview of the relationships between astronomy and other areas of human investigation. It will be useful as a reference for scholars and students in both astronomy and archaeology, and will be of compelling interest to readers who seek a broad understanding of our collective intellectual history.
Jaguar Sky
Laura Perry
Author : Laura Perry
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517311780
Jaguar Sky by Laura Perry Pdf
Student archaeologist Maddie Phoenix is up to her ears in trouble in Central America. On impulse after a nightmare involving a Maya sacred site, she leaps headfirst into an international archaeology expedition with her college anthropology department. She awakens to the modern Maya world of shamanism and herbal healing just as the research team collapses and she is threatened with arrest and deportation. It doesn't help matters that her best friend thinks she's crazy or that her professor is in love with her. Only the support of a native Maya teacher can save Maddie from emotional breakdown and set her on her true path.