Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatatlipoca, Lord of the Smoking Mirror - Couverture souple

Olivier, Guilhem

 
9780870819070: Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatatlipoca, Lord of the Smoking Mirror
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0870819070 ISBN 13 : 9780870819070
Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2008

Synopsis

Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a masterful study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon.

An enigmatic and melodramatic figure, the Lord of the Smoking Mirror was both drunken seducer and mutilated transgressor and although he severely punished those who violated pre-Columbian moral codes, he also received mortal confessions. A patron deity to kings and warriors as well as a protector of slaves, Tezcatlipoca often clashed in epic confrontations with his "enemy brother" Quetzalcoatl, the famed Feathered Serpent. Yet these powers of Mesoamerican mythology collaborated to create the world, and their common attributes hint at a dual character.

In a sophisticated, systematic tour through the sources and problems related to Tezcatlipoca's protean powers and shifting meanings, Olivier guides readers through the symbolic names of this great god, from his representation on skins and stones to his relationship to ritual knives and other deities.

Drawing upon iconographic material, chronicles written in Spanish and in Nahuatl, and the rich contributions of ethnography, Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God - like the mirror of Tezcatlipoca in which the fates of mortals were reflected - reveals an important but obscured portion of the cosmology of pre-Columbian Mexico.

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À propos de l?auteur

Guilhem Olivier is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma in Mexico City and lecturer at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

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Éditeur
University Press of Colorado
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0870819070
ISBN 13 
9780870819070
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
420
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780870817458: Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, "Lord of the Smoking Mirror"

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0870817450 ISBN 13 :  9780870817458
Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2004
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