Author : John Mini
Publisher : Trans-Hyperborean Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aztecs
ISBN : 0965782506
The Aztec Virgin
John Mini
The Aztec Virgin
The Aztec Virgin 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 The Aztec Virgin book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Virgin's Children
William Madsen
Author : William Madsen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477301302
The Virgin's Children by William Madsen Pdf
An absorbing account of the descendants of the ancient Aztecs and of the survival of their culture into the twentieth century in the Valley of Mexico is presented in this fascinating volume. Focusing on San Francisco Tecospa—a village of some eight hundred Indians who still spoke Nahuatl, whose lives were dominated by supernaturalism, and who observed with only slight modification much of their Aztec heritage—this story bears out the anthropological principle that innovations are most likely to be accepted when they are useful, communicable, and compatible with established tradition. Nowhere is the Indian genius for combining the old and the new better exemplified than in the story of how the Virgin of Guadalupe came to fulfill the role formerly played by the pagan goddess Tonantzin and of how Christian saints replaced the Aztec gods. At the time of this study, the Tecospans still called the Catholic Virgin Tonantzin, but their concept of the mother goddess had changed profoundly since Aztec times. Tonantzin the Pagan, a hideous goddess with claws on her hands and feet and with snakes entwining her face, wore a necklace of hearts, hands, and skulls to represent her insatiable appetite for corpses. Tonantzin the Catholic—also called Guadalupe—is a beautiful and benevolent mother deity who repeatedly stays God’s anger against her Mexican children and answers the prayers of the poorest Indian, with no thought of return. In Tecospa the road to social recognition lay in the performance of religious works, and the neglect of ritual obligation subjected both the individual and the community to the anger of supernaturals who punished with illness or other misfortune. Religion was inextricably a part of every phase of life, and it is the whole life of the Aztecan that is recorded here: fiesta, clothing, food, agricultural practices, courtship, marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, death, witchcraft and its cures, medical practices and attitudes, houses and home life, ethics, and the hot-cold complex that classifies everything in the Tecospan universe from God to Bromo-Seltzer. With a marked simplicity of style and language William Madsen has produced a profoundly significant anthropological study that is delightful reading from the first sentence to the last. The drawings, the work of a ten-year-old Tecospan lad, are remarkable for their penetrating insight into the culture.
Feminine Conquest
Zukame
Author : Zukame
Publisher : Zukame
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Feminine Conquest by Zukame Pdf
Conquests are men's business, yet in the Conquest of Mexico there is a woman at its center. Five centuries after the Spaniards' arrival to Mexico, most of its people still believe the Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztec Empire. British Boudicca and French Joan of Arc fought against foreign invaders; but in Mexico, a Native woman―Malintzin, fought on the side of the foreign conquerors. This anomalous phenomenon has been grossly overlooked by historians, who have allowed Hernán Cortés to steal the show while omitting the credits to Malintzin who directed it. In his first book, Zukame explores one of the greatest omissions in the study of this historical event―the immense contribution of Mesoamerican women in the overthrow of the Aztec Empire and subsequent imposition of Spanish rule. In this book, the author relies on scientific studies as well as on his personal observations of the living conditions in Mexico today. More than just a history book, Feminine Conquest, offers the reader a distinct manner of observing not just historical events but the very nature of reality.
The Virgin of Guadalupe
John Annerino
Author : John Annerino
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781423624721
The Virgin of Guadalupe by John Annerino Pdf
The Virgin of Guadalupe is a brilliant art book that celebrates a popular cultural icon, a venerable symbol of compassion, hope, and humility—and one of the most popular pieces of ancient art ever created. Featuring color photographs, bilingual English and Spanish captions, and an evocative essay, the book includes lyrical quotes from Aztec legends, miraculous apparitions, storied histories, and colorful folklore.
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World
Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Author : Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195330830
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno Pdf
Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
The Virgin's Children
William Madsen
Author : William Madsen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1960-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292741348
The Virgin's Children by William Madsen Pdf
An absorbing account of the descendants of the ancient Aztecs and of the survival of their culture into the twentieth century in the Valley of Mexico is presented in this fascinating volume. Focusing on San Francisco Tecospa—a village of some eight hundred Indians who still spoke Nahuatl, whose lives were dominated by supernaturalism, and who observed with only slight modification much of their Aztec heritage—this story bears out the anthropological principle that innovations are most likely to be accepted when they are useful, communicable, and compatible with established tradition. Nowhere is the Indian genius for combining the old and the new better exemplified than in the story of how the Virgin of Guadalupe came to fulfill the role formerly played by the pagan goddess Tonantzin and of how Christian saints replaced the Aztec gods. At the time of this study, the Tecospans still called the Catholic Virgin Tonantzin, but their concept of the mother goddess had changed profoundly since Aztec times. Tonantzin the Pagan, a hideous goddess with claws on her hands and feet and with snakes entwining her face, wore a necklace of hearts, hands, and skulls to represent her insatiable appetite for corpses. Tonantzin the Catholic—also called Guadalupe—is a beautiful and benevolent mother deity who repeatedly stays God’s anger against her Mexican children and answers the prayers of the poorest Indian, with no thought of return. In Tecospa the road to social recognition lay in the performance of religious works, and the neglect of ritual obligation subjected both the individual and the community to the anger of supernaturals who punished with illness or other misfortune. Religion was inextricably a part of every phase of life, and it is the whole life of the Aztecan that is recorded here: fiesta, clothing, food, agricultural practices, courtship, marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, death, witchcraft and its cures, medical practices and attitudes, houses and home life, ethics, and the hot-cold complex that classifies everything in the Tecospan universe from God to Bromo-Seltzer. With a marked simplicity of style and language William Madsen has produced a profoundly significant anthropological study that is delightful reading from the first sentence to the last. The drawings, the work of a ten-year-old Tecospan lad, are remarkable for their penetrating insight into the culture.
The Aztec Kings
Susan D. Gillespie
Author : Susan D. Gillespie
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816534784
The Aztec Kings by Susan D. Gillespie Pdf
Winner of the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory, The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time and treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan D. Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.
Lying Beneath the Virgin
C. W. Wilson
Author : C. W. Wilson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462030019
Lying Beneath the Virgin by C. W. Wilson Pdf
WARNING: CONTENT MAY BE DAMAGING TO RELIGIOUS BELIEFS In 1995, C.W. Wilsons life was changed forever when he discovered satanic iconography veiled in the Catholic Churchs venerated Our Lady of Guadalupe. He shares this insight in a new novel inspired by actual events. The leaders of the most powerful religion in the world are not who they claim to be... And they have a secret. In the shadowed underworld of the illegal narcotics trade, Kentucky, a seemingly normal young man of questionable morals and principals, unwittingly discovers a blasphemous subliminal image in one of the worlds most beloved icons, and his search for answers uncovers a deception so malevolent it could destroy the very foundation of Christianity. In a world void of physical and mental limitations, Kentucky struggles to come to grips with Christianitys darkest and most closely guarded secret. Will the promise of an eternal life in heaven still hold sway once the world discovers death is merely an option?
The Dark Virgin
Oakland Ross
Author : Oakland Ross
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443403641
The Dark Virgin by Oakland Ross Pdf
In sixteenth-century Mexico, Pitoque is a reluctant spy for the Aztec ruler Montezuma, who is desperate to discover the truth about reports of strange, tall, odorous beings. Are these creatures the envoys of the man-god Quetzalcóatl? Pitoque can’t be sure—nor does he suspect how the arrival of Hernando Cortés, Spanish conquistador, will change the course of his country’s history forever.
Feminine Conquest
Independently Published
Author : Independently Published
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798607230609
Feminine Conquest by Independently Published Pdf
Conquests are men's business, yet in the Conquest of Mexico there is a woman at its center. Five centuries after the Spaniards' arrival to Mexico, most of its people still believe the Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztec Empire. British Boudicca and French Joan of Arc fought against foreign invaders; but in Mexico, a Native woman―Malintzin, fought on the side of the foreign conquerors. This anomalous phenomenon has been grossly overlooked by historians, who have allowed Hernán Cortés to steal the show while omitting the credits to Malintzin who directed it. In his first book, Zukame explores one of the greatest omissions in the study of this historical event―the immense contribution of Mesoamerican women in the overthrow of the Aztec Empire and subsequent imposition of Spanish rule. In this book, the author relies on scientific studies as well as on his personal observations of the living conditions in Mexico to this day. More than just a history book, Feminine Conquest, offers the reader a distinct manner of observing not just historical events but the very nature of reality.
Aztec Goddesses and Christian Madonnas
Joseph Kroger,Patrizia Granziera
Author : Joseph Kroger,Patrizia Granziera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351956116
Aztec Goddesses and Christian Madonnas by Joseph Kroger,Patrizia Granziera Pdf
The face of the divine feminine can be found everywhere in Mexico. One of the most striking features of Mexican religious life is the prevalence of images of the Virgin Mother of God. This is partly because the divine feminine played such a prominent role in pre-Hispanic Mexican religion. Goddess images were central to the devotional life of the Aztecs, especially peasants and those living in villages outside the central city of Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City). In these rural communities fertility and fecundity, more than war rituals and sacrificial tribute, were the main focus of cultic activity. Both Aztec goddesses and the Christian Madonnas who replaced them were associated, and sometimes identified, with nature and the environment: the earth, water, trees and other sources of creativity and vitality. This book uncovers the myths and images of 22 Aztec Goddesses and 28 Christian Madonnas of Mexico. Their rich and symbolic meaning is revealed by placing them in the context of the religious worldviews in which they appear and by situating them within the devotional life of the faithful for whom they function as powerful mediators of divine grace and terror.
Aztec
Mary A. Stout
Author : Mary A. Stout
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836836995
Aztec by Mary A. Stout Pdf
Describes the origin, history, traditional and contemporary ways of life of the Aztec Indians of Mexico.
Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity
Mary Fong,Rueyling Chuang
Author : Mary Fong,Rueyling Chuang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 074251739X
Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity by Mary Fong,Rueyling Chuang Pdf
This intercultural communication text reader brings together the many dimensions of ethnic and cultural identity and shows how they are communicated in everyday life. Introducing and applying key concepts, theories, and approaches--from empirical to ethnographic--a wide variety of essays look at the experiences of African Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, Latino/as, and Native Americans, as well as many cultural groups. The authors also explore issues such as gender, race, class, spirituality, alternative lifestyles, and inter- and intra-ethnic identity. Sites of analysis range from movies and photo albums to beauty salons and Deadhead concerts. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Francisco Serrano
Author : Francisco Serrano
Publisher : Libros Tigrillo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Guadalupe, Our Lady of
ISBN : 0888993358
Our Lady of Guadalupe by Francisco Serrano Pdf
Pop-ups, pull tabs, and other moveable features illustrate scenes from the story of Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The Aztec Image in Western Thought
Benjamin Keen
Author : Benjamin Keen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0813515726
The Aztec Image in Western Thought by Benjamin Keen Pdf
Encompass the sweep of changing Western thought on the Aztecs from Cortes to the present.
