Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Aztec MythsCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and LegendsEAN: 9780500025536ISBN: 9780500025536Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdRelease Date: 05/02/2024Description: The essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology, based on Nahuatl-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish. How did the jaguar get his spots? What happened to the four suns that came before our own? Where was Aztlan, mythical homeland of the Aztecs? For decades, the popular image of the Mexica people – better known today as the Aztecs – has been defined by the Spaniards who conquered them. Their salacious stories of pet snakes, human sacrifice and towering skull racks have masked a complex world of religious belief. To reveal the rich mythic tapestry of the Aztecs, Camilla Townsend returns to the original tales, told at the fireside by generations of Indigenous Nahuatl-speakers. Through their voices we learn the contested histories of the Mexica and their neighbours in the Valley of Mexico – the foundations of great cities, the making and breaking of political alliances, the meddling of sometimes bloodthirsty gods – and understand more clearly how they saw their world and their place in it. The divine principle of Ipalnemoani connected humans with all of nature and spiritual beliefs were woven through the fabric of Aztec life, from the sacred ministrations of the ticitl, midwives whose rituals saw women through childbirth, to the inevitable passage to Mictlan, ‘our place of disappearing together’ – the land of the dead.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 196mmItem Length: 129mmItem Weight: 480gAuthor: Camilla TownsendGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Language & ReferenceBook Series: MythsRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Aztec Myths
Title: The Aztec Myths
Subtitle: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends
EAN: 9780500025536
ISBN: 9780500025536
Release Date: 05/02/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Myths
Book Title: Aztec Myths : a Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Folklore & Mythology, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 16.6 Oz
Author: Camilla Townsend
Item Length: 8 in
Book Series: Myths Ser.
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Hardcover
