Aztec Fire

Author : Gary Jennings
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765392186
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztec Fire written by Gary Jennings and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues Juan Rios comes from a long line of Aztec warriors. Slave to a Spanish gun-maker, he becomes the finest gunsmith and sharpshooter in colonial Mexico. But Juan has a secret life as the revolucion's #1 gun-runner. Juan falls for the beautiful Maria, a beautiful writer and fearless revolucionaria whose dream of freedom is a liability for them both. The hard-drinking, womanizing, con-man Luis becomes their last hope against the rack, the stake, and the blood-stained torture dungeons of the Inquisition. Aztec Fire sweeps readers on a perilous journey from the fabled ruins of ancient Tula to the slave-labor galleons of "the Manila Run" to a South Seas jungle island teeming with crocodiles, snakes, and blood-crazed cannibals. When Juan and his friends finally reach home, they find their country in flames, struggling against its hated Spanish oppressors. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : John Major Jenkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591438241
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex written by John Major Jenkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first translation of a previously unknown Aztec codex and its initiatory teachings for 2012 • Discloses the potential for great spiritual awakening offered at the end of the Aztec calendar cycle • Presents the only existing English-language transcription of the Aztec codex, with line-by-line commentary • Contains the epic poetry and metaphysical insights of Beat poet Marty Matz (1934–2001 In 1961 an unknown Aztec codex was revealed to Beat poet and explorer Marty Matz by a Mazatec shaman in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Originally intended for dramatic performance, this codex presents a profound metaphysical teaching describing how the end of time will bring about a visionary ascent. At the behest of his Mazatec teacher, Matz transcribed this pictorial codex into a literary form that would preserve its initiatory teachings and reveal its secret meanings to a wider audience.Pyramid of Fire is an epic poem that provides a vehicle to transport the initiate into the higher realms of consciousness. It represents a barely surviving thread of teachings that have been passed down in secret since the time of the Spanish Conquest. Revealed are the techniques by which man is transported to the stellar realm after death via the solar energy within what the ancients called the “serpent of consciousness.” Line-by-line commentary by Matz and John Major Jenkins provides insights into the perennial philosophy contained in the codex and its relevance to our times.

Author : Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195330838
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook to Life in the Aztec World written by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.

Author : James Maffie
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322234
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztec Philosophy written by James Maffie and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.

Author : Ellis Roxburgh
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502606380
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aztec Empire written by Ellis Roxburgh and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aztecs developed an amazing culture unknown to the Western world. Their religion, language, and accomplishments have made them some of the most well known empires of history. Learn about the rise and fall of the Aztecs in this exciting book full of primary sources.

Author : Gary Jennings
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765356260
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztec Revenge written by Gary Jennings and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to flee after killing a man who was beating a horse, Juan the Lépero, who hides his mixed heritage to escape life as a beggar, embarks on a series of adventures as a highwayman, horse thief, and wealthy caballero before resolving to rescue a man who once saved his life.

Author : Lori Boornazian Diel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztec Codices written by Lori Boornazian Diel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the migration of the Aztecs to the rise of the empire and its eventual demise, this book covers Aztec history in full, analyzing conceptions of time, religion, and more through codices to offer an inside look at daily life. This book focuses on two main areas: Aztec history and Aztec culture. Early chapters deal with Aztec history—the first providing a visual record of the story of the Aztec migration and search for their destined homeland of Tenochtitlan, and the second exploring how the Aztecs built their empire. Later chapters explain life in the Aztec world, focusing on Aztec conceptions of time and religion, the Aztec economy, the life cycle, and daily life. The book ends with an account of the fall of the empire, as illustrated by Aztec artists. With sections concerning a wide variety of topics—from the Aztec pantheon to war, agriculture, childhood, marriage, diet, justice, the arts, and sports, among many others—readers will gain an expansive understanding of life in the Aztec world.

Author : Ross Hassig
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292749023
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico written by Ross Hassig and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating study offers a radical new understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history. Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was manipulated by the state as a means of controlling a dispersed tribute empire, and that the Conquest cut off state control and severed the unity of the calendar, leaving only the lesser cycles. From these, he asserts, we have inadequately reconstructed the pre-Columbian calendar and so misunderstood the Aztec conception of time and history. Hassig first presents the traditional explanation of the Aztec calendrical system and its ideological functions and then marshals contrary evidence to argue that the Aztec elite deliberately used calendars and timekeeping to achieve practical political ends. He further traces how the Conquest played out in the temporal realm as Spanish conceptions of time partially displaced the Aztec ones.

Author : Kay Almere Read
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113917
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos written by Kay Almere Read and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.

Author : T. A. Brown
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142517146X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First There Was Fire written by T. A. Brown and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: