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Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl

Author : Henry B. Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008038012

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Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl by Henry B. Nicholson Pdf

In Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, H.B. Nicholson presents the most comprehensive survey and discussion of the primary sources and relevant archaeological evidence concerning this man/god, the most enigmatic figure of ancient Mesoamerica. Long available only on university microfilm, this classic text has been updated and now includes new illustrations and an index. Nicholson sorts through the wealth of material, classifying, summarizing, and analyzing all known primary accounts in the Spanish, Nahuatl, and Mayan languages of the career of Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl. In a new Introduction, he updates the original source material presently available to scholars concerned with this figure.

The Myth of Quetzalcoatl

Author : Enrique Florescano
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801871018

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The Myth of Quetzalcoatl by Enrique Florescano Pdf

In this comprehensive study, Enrique Florescano traces the spread of the worship of the Plumed Serpent, and the multiplicity of interpretations that surround him, by comparing the Palenque inscriptions (ca. A.D. 690), the Vienna Codex (pre-Hispanic Conquest), the Historia de los Mexicanos (1531), the Popul Vuh (ca. 1554), and numerous other texts. He also consults and reproduces archeological evidence from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, demonstrating how the myth of Quetzalcoatl extends throughout Mesoamerica.

How Did the “White” God Come to Mexico? Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl

Author : Stefan Heep
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527539969

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How Did the “White” God Come to Mexico? Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl by Stefan Heep Pdf

Most American schoolbooks claim that the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II confused the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés for the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, a fabulous, fair-skinned priest king of ancient times who had promised to return, which is why Moctezuma voluntarily surrendered his mighty empire. In the past, the tale of Quetzalcoatl has inspired many people to speculate about pre-Columbian invaders from the Old World. It has also been abused as another presumed proof of white supremacy. Indigenous traditions, however, saw a Mexican Messiah who played an important part in constructing the Mexican national identity. This book demonstrates that the story of the returning god is a product of “fake news” uttered by Cortés. It does so by analysing the most important sources of the Quetzalcoatl-tale. A systematic context-enlargement that also includes ethnographic information and contemporary history reveals why and how Cortés constructed this story, and why and how the Aztec elite adopted it. This method proves to be an epistemological tool which allows researchers to identify pre-Hispanic information in ethnohistorical texts of colonial times. As a result, the true Quetzalcoatl behind the legend comes to light.

Archival Reflections

Author : Santiago Juan-Navarro
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838754279

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Archival Reflections by Santiago Juan-Navarro Pdf

"Due to its scope and perspective this work has a relevance that extends far beyond the conventional bounds of literary studies. Concerned as it is with issues of historical understanding, culture, and politics, it has implications for the literary histories of Spanish America and the United States, as well as for the fields of inter-American and cultural studies, literary theory, and historiography."--BOOK JACKET.

The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl

Author : Jongsoo Lee
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826343383

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The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl by Jongsoo Lee Pdf

Lee offers a more realistic portrait of the legendary Aztec ruler Nezahualcoyotl, derived from examination of original Nahuatl codices and poetry, as well as Spanish chronicles.

Remembering

Author : Todd Lindgren
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727767497

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Remembering by Todd Lindgren Pdf

Remembering - The Life of Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl In the spring of 1988, while living in Mexico City, I had an extremely vivid Vision Of an ancient Toltec man appearing before me in all of his splendor from within the off limit areas of the pirámide city of Teotihuacán. The streaking figure of a man came out of the door of a brightly painted stuccoed house that just mere seconds before was only the normal rocks and dust of the Archaeological ruin. He spoke with me stating that I had at that moment a very high Vibrational frequency, and, because oat that point in his existence he was leaving the physician realm physical realm for the non- physical, having decided to no longer reincarnate. Decades later, while in an extremely high vibrational state, that being once again appeared to me while I was in my Florida home. It took me five years to channel this autobiography given directly to the world from Ce Actle Topiltzin, The principal did he have all of Meso America. The man of God who was named Quetzacuatle. This autobiography from beyond the physical realm, is his most profound, yet basic teachings brought to us in the form have a narrative of his life. It is been given for all of humanity at a time when humanity needs it most. For whatever it's worth, I have read it 20 times, and I still learn more and more of a deep secrets. The words in the book did not change, but every time I read it with a new level of understanding and appreciation.

Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire

Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226094908

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Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire by David Carrasco Pdf

Davíd Carrasco draws from the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban ecology to explore the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organization, legitimation, and subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition. His new Preface addresses this tradition in the light of the Columbian quincentennial. "This book, rich in ideas, constituting a novel approach . . . represents a stimulating and provocative contribution to Mesoamerican studies. . . . Recommended to all serious students of the New World's most advanced indigenous civilization."—H. B. Nicholson, Man

The Aztec Kings

Author : Susan D. Gillespie
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816534784

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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.

Lifelines in World History

Author : Ase Berit,Rolf Strandskogen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317466048

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Lifelines in World History by Ase Berit,Rolf Strandskogen Pdf

This lavishly illustrated full-color set is organized by the time frames that mirror the National Standards for world history for grades 6-12. An ideal supplement to all the major textbooks, it offers appealing and comprehensive biographies of history's most influential figures - both famous and infamous."Lifelines in World History" features biographies of figures from Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Southwest Asia, and covers the most significant events and trends in world history. Each volume includes 15-20 biographies, and in addition to biographical information, each entry includes engaging sidebars that feature key dates, more people to know, words from their time, and cultural connections. The set also includes numerous full-color maps.

The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero

Author : Gordon M. Sayre
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0807877018

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The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero by Gordon M. Sayre Pdf

The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the U.S. stage, such as John Augustus Stone's Metamora, and for Indian biographies as national historiography, such as the writings of Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and William Apess. With chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero offers an analysis of not only the tragedies and epics written about these leaders, but also their own speeches and strategies, as recorded in archival sources and narratives by adversaries including Hernan Cortes, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, Joseph Doddridge, Robert Rogers, and William Henry Harrison. Sayre concludes that these tragedies and epics about Native resistance laid the foundation for revolutionary culture and historiography in the three modern nations of North America, and that, at odds with the trope of the complaisant "vanishing Indian," these leaders presented colonizers with a cathartic reproof of past injustices.

Relic

Author : Theresa Danley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633556751

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Relic by Theresa Danley Pdf

When Lori Dewson isn't seeking ancient mysteries to solve, they come looking for her. This time it's in the form of a mask illegally looted out of New Mexico's soil. Could it be the Hopi ceremonial mask of the Blue Star Kachina, or that of a prophetic priest with Toltec origins? Anthropologist, Anthony Peet, is already neck deep into the case. But there are others who have their own agendas for the artifact, which could mark the end for Lori and Peet - and the world. RELIC daringly collides the Mesoamerican cosmologies first introduced in Theresa Danley's archaeological thrillers, EFFIGY and DEITY, with the mythological and archaeological mysteries of the American Southwest

Lord of the Dawn

Author : Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826351913

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Lord of the Dawn by Rudolfo Anaya Pdf

The legend of Quetzalcóatl is the enduring epic myth of Mesoamerica. The gods create the universe, but man must carefully tend to the harmony of the world. Without spiritual attention to harmony, chaos may reign, destroying the universe and civilization. The ancient Mexicans, like other peoples throughout the world, wrestled with ideas and metaphors by which to know the Godhead and developed their own concepts about their relationship to the universe. Quetzalcóatl came to the Toltecs to teach them art, agriculture, peace, and knowledge. He was a redeemer god, and his story inspires, instructs, and entertains, as do all the great myths of the world. Now available in paperback, the Lord of the Dawn is Anaya’s exploration of the cosmology and the rich and complex spiritual thought of his Native American ancestors. The story depicts the daily world of man, the struggle between the peacemakers and the warmongers, and the world of the gods and their role in the life of mankind.

On the Lips of Others

Author : Patrick Thomas Hajovsky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477307243

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On the Lips of Others by Patrick Thomas Hajovsky Pdf

An interdisciplinary study investigating how the name and portrait of Moteuczoma (a.k.a. Moctezuma/Montezuma) II were represented in Aztec monuments and colonial manuscripts and how the concept of fame operated in the Aztec world.

Twin Tollans

Author : Cynthia Kristan-Graham
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0884023230

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Twin Tollans by Cynthia Kristan-Graham Pdf

This volume had its beginnings in the two-day colloquium, "Rethinking Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. Rather than approaching these questions through the notions of migrations and conquests, these essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economic relationships that took shape during the transition from the Epiclassic period in Central Mexico, the Terminal Classic period in the Maya region, and the succeeding Early Postclassic period.

Anthropology and Global History

Author : Robert M. Carmack
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759123908

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Anthropology and Global History by Robert M. Carmack Pdf

Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present—utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies. Carmack reconceptualizes world history from a global perspective by employing the expansive concepts of “world-systems” and “civilizations,” and by paying deeper attention to the role of tribal and native peoples within this history. Rather than concentrating on the minute details of specific great events in global history, he shifts our focus to the broad social and cultural contexts in which they occurred. Carmack traces the emergence of ancient kingdoms and the characteristics of pre-modern empires as well as the processes by which the modern world has become integrated and transformed. The book addresses Western civilization as well as comparative processes which have unfolded in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. Vignettes opening each chapter and case studies integrated throughout the text illustrate the numerous and often extremely complex historical processes which have operated through time and across local, regional, and global settings.