Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate

Name: Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate
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ISBN: 9780292712638

ISBN-10: 0292712634

ISBN-13: 9780292712638

Edition: 2007

Authors: Elizabeth Hill Boone

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Analysing the extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and explaning the genre as a whole, this work introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. It explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces.

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 338
Size: 8.86" wide x 11.18" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English

Elizabeth Hill Boone is Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University.



List of Figures


List of Color Plates


List of Tables


Preface



Containers of the Knowledge of the World



Time, the Ritual Calendar, and Divination



The Symbolic Vocabulary of the Almanacs



Structures of Prophetic Knowledge



The Almanacs Multipurpose Almanacs Directional Almanacs Topical Almanacs



Protocols for Rituals



The Cosmogony in the Codex Borgia



Provenience



A Mexican Divinatory System


Appendix: Content Summaries


Notes


Bibliography


Index