07218cam a2201033 a 4500 mayacosmosthreet0000frei CaSfIA 20250727181356.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 930108s1993 nyua ob 001 0 eng 93002696 (OCoLC)1150266300 DLC eng DLC LVB BAKER NLGGC BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG ZWZ DEBBG HALAN IAD OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO DNN OCLCO OCLCQ CSJ OCLCO DHA OCLCQ OCLCA CPO OCLCQ BGU CaSfIA 0688100813 (acid-free paper) 9780688100810 (acid-free paper) 0688140696 9780688140694 0888100813 (t. p. verso) n-mx--- nc----- F1435.3.R3 F74 1993 299/.79281 20 299.7842 23 15.85 bcl Freidel, David A. Maya cosmos : three thousand years on the shaman's path / David Freidel, Linda Schele & Joy Parker ; photographs by Justin Kerr & MacDuff Everton. Three thousand years on the shaman's path 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, ©1993. 1 online resource (543 pages : illustrations (some color)) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-523) and index. Foreword: The orthography -- Worlds apart, joined together : the road of Maya reality -- The hearth and the tree : Maya creation -- Centering the world -- Maya souls -- Ensouling the world and raising the tree -- Dancing across the abyss : Maya festival and pageant -- Flint-shields and battle beasts : the warrior path of kingship -- Gaming with the gods : destiny and history in Maya thought. The ancient Maya, through their shamans, kings, warriors, and scribes, created a legacy of power and enduring beauty. The landmark publication of A Forest of Kings presented the first accessible, dramatic history of this great civilization, written by experts in the translation of glyphs. Now, in Maya Cosmos, Freidel, Schele, and Parker examine Maya mythology and religion, unraveling the question of how these extraordinary people, five million strong, have managed to. Preserve their most sacred beliefs into modern times. In Maya Cosmos, the authors draw upon translations of sacred texts and histories spanning thousands of years to tell us a story of the Maya, not in our words but in theirs. At the heart of this extraordinary world was the myth of Creation, as enduring and persuasive as any from the Old World. Recorded in stone texts and illustrated on pottery vessels, in books, and in stone at many ancient sites is the narrative of. The Maize God and his children as they confront the Lords of Death in the Otherworld called Xibalba. The authors reveal the myth in its ancient form, not as a quaint story for children but as a map of the sky with the actions of the gods revealed in the movements of the Milky Way and the stars. They investigate the myth as the basis of government and the symbolism of political power, as a description of the daily lives of common people as they planted their fields of. Corn and cooked food for their children, as instructions for the afterlife and resurrection of the soul, and as the lesson at the heart of the famous Maya ballgame. Maya Cosmos takes this Creation myth from its first expression three thousand years ago by the Olmecs, the first civilization in Central America, to its living expression in a Ch'a-Chak ceremony held in Yukatan a few years ago. As an archaeologist, David Freidel shows how using the myth and understanding its. Effect on the artifacts and architecture created by the ancients help explain what we excavate from the ground. As an epigrapher and iconographer, Linda Schele reads the texts and scenes that preserve the myth for the modern world. Between them, the cosmos of the ancient Maya comes to life and reveals the core of one of the greatest traditions of religious thought known from the ancient world. However, the great contribution of Maya Cosmos comes in the connections it. Makes between the ancient and the modern Maya. Neither the Maya nor their religion is dead. Invited into their world by the Maya themselves, Freidel and Schele convey their personal experiences. You will stand beside David as his friend Don Pablo prays for rain in a Ch'a-Chak ceremony in Yukatan. Linda takes you to a divination ceremony in Chichicastenango and to the church where she receives the blessing and protection of a powerful Aj Q'ij. Maya Cosmos tells us about. One of the greatest, most enduring, and least-known religious traditions in human history. It reveals the extraordinary richness of this religion as well as the contributions it can make to humanity at large during the coming centuries. Internet Archive - 2 Internet Archive 2 Maya mythology. Mayas Rites and ceremonies. Maya philosophy. Shamanism Mexico. Shamanism Central America. Philosophie maya. Chamanisme Mexique. Chamanisme Amérique centrale. Mayas Rites et cérémonies. Maya mythology. fast (OCoLC)fst01012734 Maya philosophy. fast (OCoLC)fst01012738 Mayas Rites and ceremonies. fast (OCoLC)fst01012828 Shamanism. fast (OCoLC)fst01115159 Central America. fast (OCoLC)fst01244535 Mexico. fast (OCoLC)fst01211700 Maya's. gtt Sjamanisme. gtt Maya gnd Mythologie gnd Religion maya. ram Mayas Rites et cérémonies. ram Chamanisme Mexique. ram Chamanisme Amérique centrale. ram Maya. swd Chamanisme - Amérique centrale. Chamanisme - Mexique. Mayas - Rites et cérémonies. Philosophie maya. Schele, Linda. Parker, Joy, 1953- Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC https://archive.org/details/mayacosmosthreet0000frei Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1395375M Additional information and access via Open Library mayacosmosthreet0000frei 0 ark:/13960/t47q7kn8c