Maya Pilgrimage

Author : Paul John Wigowsky
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449089320

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Maya Pilgrimage by Paul John Wigowsky Pdf

It is said that travel broadens one's horizons. A pilgrimage, on the other hand, expands one's consciousness. The end result of a pilgrimage is the capacity to see the sacredness in the places that are visited. One such sacred place is the vast territory of the Maya world, where thousands of pyramid-temples form a network or web of interconnected sites. These sites - like Tikal in Guatemala and Copan in Honduras - are remnants of a complex and highly-advanced civilization that existed on the continent of the Americas, forming what was known as the Land of the Plumed Serpent. This mysterious and awe-inspiring Land of the Plumed Serpent is the subject of this book. Travel with the author on a pilgrimage of this land and explore the heart and soul of the Americas in Guatemala, where the Maya people to this day have preserved the ancient customs, traditions, and religion of their ancestors. Learn about Xibalba (the Maya underworld), the Popol Vuh (Maya Bible), 2012 (calendar cycle), Maximon (the ancient Mam of Maya mythology), the Milky Way (the double-headed serpent Kukulcan), and much more. Wander the streets of colonial Antigua, the ancient capital of the Spanish Empire. Sail the waters of Lake Atitlan, the heart center of the planet, and see the numerous indigenous Maya groups in their colorful traje (clothing). Walk on the black volcanic sand beaches of Monterrico, where the turtles reenact their eternal drama of survival. Climb the active volcano Pacaya and stand next to a flowing river of lava. Shop at the incomparable market of Chichicastenango in the Guatemala highlands. After reading this book, you will marvel at the beauty of the Maya world, and you will realize that the Maya consciousness is still alive and thrives in the Land of the Plumed Serpent.

Author : Joel W. Palka
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826354747

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Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscape by Joel W. Palka Pdf

Through cross-cultural comparisons, archaeological data, and ethnographic insights, Joel W. Palka addresses central questions about Maya pilgrimage practice and discusses the broad importance of Maya ritual landscapes and pilgrimage for Mesoamerica as a whole.

Author : Victor Witter Turner,Edith L. B. Turner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 9780231157919

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Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture by Victor Witter Turner,Edith L. B. Turner Pdf

Originally published: 1978, in series: Lectures on the history of religions; new ser., no. 11. With new introd.

Author : Lucrezia Lopez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031322099

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Geography of World Pilgrimages by Lucrezia Lopez Pdf

This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors. The volume gathers interdisciplinary contributions revealing different approaches and academic interests when researching pilgrimage. Finally, the proposal introduces a comparative international breath to reflect upon such complex phenomenon that since Antiquity still impregnates the history of human being across the world. As pilgrimage studies are closely related to mobility issues, how the contemporary mobile world is altering and re-signifying pilgrimage dynamics and meanings will also be discussed in detail. The term “pilgrimage” evokes key concepts deriving from different fields, all of them collected in the final glossary. The primary audience of this work are academics and researchers from different fields involved in pilgrimage studies. The work may also be useful in teaching (advanced) university courses.

Author : Paul John Wigowsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781481733380

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Pilgrimage in the Holy Land by Paul John Wigowsky Pdf

A pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Israel) is the ultimate goal of every Christian and Jewish pilgrim. The Holy Land is the setting of most of the stories in the Scriptures. To enter the Promised Land and see the sites of familiar Bible stories is like traveling back in time. Pilgrim Tours provides the pilgrim with the opportunity to journey back to the time of Abraham, Elijah, Jesus and many other sacred luminaries of Biblical history. The most notable places on the tour are: (1) Caesarea, the famous port city; (2) Mount Carmel, where the prophet Elijah demonstrated the preeminence of his God; (3) Megiddo, where archaeologists have unearthed twenty levels of civilizations; (4) Tel Dan, a nature reserve and the ancient site of a cultic high place; (5) Banias (Caesarea Philippi), the site of a Hellenic Temple of Pan; (6) Capernaum, known as the town of Jesus; (7) the Sea of Galilee, where a song-filled cruise on the waters that Jesus walked on brings joy and peace to the pilgrim's soul. The best guide in the world, Marian Gavish, brings the history, culture, and religions of Israel into a comprehensive and understandable format with her instructive talks and discussions as we journey through: (8) Beit Shean, a Decapolis city at the juncture of the Jezreel and Jordan valleys; (9) Masada, where the Jewish Zealots made their last stand against the Romans; (10) Qumran, site of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls; (11) Bethany Beyond Jordan, the place of the original baptism; (12) Jerusalem, from the Mount of Olives to the Via Dolorosa; (13) the Temple Mount; (14) museums - the Israel Museum and Yad HaShem. Many more places and experiences highlight a once in a lifetime pilgrimage that is thoroughly covered in this book.

Author : Daniel H. Olsen,Dallen J. Timothy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429575112

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The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism by Daniel H. Olsen,Dallen J. Timothy Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism provides a robust and comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the literature in this growing sub-field of tourism. This handbook is split into five distinct sections. The first section covers past and present debates regarding definitions, theories, and concepts related to religious and spiritual tourism. Subsequent sections focus on the supply and demand aspects of religious and spiritual tourism markets, and examine issues related to the management side of these markets around the world. Areas under examination include religious theme parks, the UNESCO branding of religious heritage, gender and performance, popular culture, pilgrimage, environmental impacts, and fear and terrorism, among many others. The final section explores emerging and future directions in religious and spiritual tourism, and proposes an agenda for further research. Interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content, this will be essential reading for all students, researchers, and academics interested in Tourism, Religion, Cultural Studies, and Heritage Studies.

Author : Charles M. Pigott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000054309

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Writing the Land, Writing Humanity by Charles M. Pigott Pdf

The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts of this new and vibrant literary movement, the book argues that the texts present literature as a trans-species phenomenon that is not reducible only to human creativity. Based on detailed textual analysis of the literature in both Maya and Spanish as well as first-hand conversations with the writers themselves, the book develops the first conceptual map of how literature constantly emerges from wider creative patterns in nature. This process, defined as literary inhabitation, is explained by synthesizing core Maya cultural concepts with diverse philosophical, literary, anthropological and biological theories. In the context of the Yucatan Peninsula, where the texts come from, literary inhabitation is presented as an integral part of bioregional becoming, the evolution of the Peninsula as a constantly unfolding dialogue.

Author : Maya Ward
Publisher : Transit Lounge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781921924361

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The Comfort of Water by Maya Ward Pdf

This is the joyful yet heartbreaking true story of four friends who walk a 21- day pilgrimage from the sea to the source of Melbourne’s Yarra River. There is no path for most of the way, but offers of campsites and boats, and free access to private lands, illustrates the generosity shown to pilgrims even in modern times. The Comfort of Water: A River Pilgrimage, Maya Ward’s lyrical exploration of her river as it winds through the city and the wild is a revelation, a testament to the fact that the greatest of worlds are often at our doorstep. Maya's telling of her own journey and that of her fellow walkers is seamlessly woven together with ecological and cultural history, the revelation of the pilgrim’s path and the unknowable depth of Aboriginal myth. Through trekking this Wurundjeri Songline, this ancient, ever-renewing river, she discovers rich possibilities of belonging, and shares how a river can nourish the passion and resilience required to transform our world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : CD-ROMs
ISBN : 9781931707916

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Quirigua Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thelma Landon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Khmers
ISBN : OCLC:858334950

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The Pilgrimage-fair and the Classic Maya Variations on a Theme by Thelma Landon Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Central America
ISBN : UCLA:L0081283202

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Journal of Mesoamerican Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bela Breslau,Stephen Billias
Publisher : Odeon Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733575049

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Pilgrim Maya by Bela Breslau,Stephen Billias Pdf

Pilgrim Maya is the story of Maya Marinovich, who has lost her husband and baby daughter in a freak car crash. Why did she survive? Should she even exist? Maya travels from Boston to San Francisco, embarking on a personal pilgrimage, desperate for a way forward. First Maya gets involved briefly, but passionately, with the leader of a Japanese cult movement called The Lost Tribe. Next Maya lands a job as an assistant property manager for The Bon Vivants, a group of artists, dancers, writers, and musicians who live in a co-housing building in Oakland called The Laundry. After a summer of making friends, and beginning to enjoy life again, Maya learns details about the accident that send her spiraling back into depression. In the final section, Maya meets spiritual teachers Eli Ronen and his wife Reva, and begins a lifelong process of healing and transformation.

Author : Clemency Chase Coggins,Orrin C. Shane, III
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477302736

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Cenote of Sacrifice by Clemency Chase Coggins,Orrin C. Shane, III Pdf

Chichén Itzá ("mouth of the well of the Itza") was one of the great centers of civilization in prehistoric America, serving between the eighth and twelfth centuries A.D. as a religious, economic, social, and political capital on the Yucatán Peninsula. Within the ancient city there were many natural wells or cenotes. One, within the ceremonial heart of the city, is an impressive natural feature with vertical limestone walls enclosing a deep pool of jade green water some eighty feet below ground level. This cenote, which gave the city its name, became a sacred shrine of Maya pilgrimage, described by one post-Conquest observer as similar to Jerusalem and Rome. Here, during the city's ascendancy and for centuries after its decline, the peoples of Yucatán consulted their gods and made ritual offerings of precious objects and living victims who were thought to receive prophecies. Although the well was described by Bishop Diego de Landa in the late sixteenth century, its contents were not known until the early 1900s when revealed by the work of Edward H. Thompson. Conducting excavations for the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Thompson recovered almost thirty thousand artifacts, most ceremonially broken and many beautifully preserved by burial in the deep silt at the bottom of the well. The materials were sent to the Peabody Museum, where they remained, unexhibited, for over seventy years. In 1984, for the first time, nearly three hundred objects of gold, jade, copper, pottery, wood, copal, textile, and other materials from the collection were gathered into a traveling interpretive exhibition. No other archaeological exhibition had previously given this glimpse into Maya ritual life because no other collection had objects such as those found in the Sacred Cenote. Moreover, the objects from the Cenote come from throughout Mesoamerica and lower Central America, representing many artistic traditions. The exhibit and this, its accompanying catalog, marked the first time all of the different kinds of offerings have ever been displayed together, and the first time many have been published. Essays by Gordon R. Willey and Linnea H. Wren place the Cenote of Sacrifice and the great Maya city of Chichén Itzá within the larger context of Maya archaeology and history. The catalog entries, written by Clemency Chase Coggins, describe the objects displayed in the traveling exhibition. Some entries are brief descriptive statements; others develop short scholarly themes bearing on the function and interpretation of specific objects. Coggins' introductory essay describes how the objects were collected by Thompson and how the exhibition collection has been studied to reveal the periods of Cenote ritual and the changing practices of offering to the Sacred Cenote.

Author : Johan Normark
Publisher : Goteborg University
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agent (Philosophy)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173022100080

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The Roads In-between by Johan Normark Pdf

Author : Makhan Jha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : UOM:39015033699656

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Dimensions of Pilgrimage by Makhan Jha Pdf

The las three decades have witnessed a phenomenal increase of interest in regional development. A good number of monographs, books and research articles have been written by different scholars on Oraon tribe but none of them exclusively highlights Oraon chidlren. Similarly, no scholar has ever evalueated the tribal participation in the Panchayati Raj and its organs at district level in Chotanagpur. In the present book, Dr. Sachindra Narayan presents his two painstaking empirical studies: 'The Tribla Children of Bihar-a Case Study of Orains' and 'Tribal participation in Panchayati Raj: A Case Study of Ranchi'. The study provides an informed glimpse in some aspects of Oraon's children life, the process of socializationand the traditional pattern of education through the youth dormitory 9Dhumkuria). The author has also highlighted the reasons for the poor turnout of students in schools as well as problems of health and nutrition and the economic role of Oraon children.