Cycles of time and meaning in the Mexican books of fate /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2007.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780292795280 0292795289 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Containers of the knowledge of the world
- 2. Time, the ritual calendar, and divination
- 3. The symbolic vocabulary of the almanacs
- 4. Structures of prophetic knowledge
- 5. The almanacs
- Multipurpose almanacs
- Directional almanacs
- Topical almanacs
- 6. Protocols for rituals
- 7. The cosmogony in the Codex Borgia
- 8. Provenience
- 9. A Mexican divinatory system
- Appendix. Content summaries.