Mayas First Rose

Author : Martin Scot Kosins
Publisher : Berkley Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maya's First Rose written by Martin Scot Kosins and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I know that the thing we humans call The Soul really does exist. I saw it -- in the eyes of an Old Dog. This is the true story of Martin Kosins, and the very special pet Maya who changedhis life.

Author : Martin Scot Kosins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878005403
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maya's First Rose written by Martin Scot Kosins and published by . This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Bassie-Sweet
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185198
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities written by Karen Bassie-Sweet and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The K’iche’ Maya creation story preserved in the sixteenth-century manuscript Popol Vuh describes the origin of the world and its people in a setting long assumed to be the Guatemalan central highlands. Now a scholar with a deep knowledge of Maya history shows that all of these mythological events occurred at specific locations and that this landscape was the template for the Maya worldview. Examining the primary Maya deities, Karen Bassie-Sweet links geographic features to gods and beliefs. She reconstructs key elements of the Popol Vuh to argue that the three volcanoes around Lake Atitlan were the three thunderbolt gods and that the lake was the center of the world. She also shows that the Maya view of the creation of humans is centered on corn and examines core beliefs about the corn cycle to propose that the creation myth was established much earlier in Maya history than previously supposed. Generously illustrated, Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities is a detailed ethnohistorical analysis of Maya religion, cosmology, and ritual practice that convincingly links mythology to the land. A comprehensive treatment of Maya religion, it provides an essential resource for scholars and will fascinate any reader captivated by these ancient beliefs.

Author : Rose Szabo
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374314314
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Big Teeth written by Rose Szabo and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Strand February 2021 Book of the Month "With a layered mystery, a haunting setting, and thrilling tension, What Big Teeth has an otherness to it that pulls you in and forces you to keep reading." —Tricia Levenseller, Publisher’s Weekly-bestselling author of The Shadows Between Us Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only place she thinks is safe: the home she left behind. But when she gets there, she struggles to fit in with her monstrous relatives, who prowl the woods around the family estate and read fortunes in the guts of birds. Eleanor finds herself desperately trying to hold the family together—in order to save them all, Eleanor must learn to embrace her family of monsters and tame the darkness inside her. Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark fantasy novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls. This exquisitely terrifying and beautiful tale will sink its teeth into you and never let go.

Author : Francisco Estrada-Belli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136882499
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Maya Civilization written by Francisco Estrada-Belli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in Prehispanic America, while others such as Cival showed even earlier evidence of complex rituals. The reality of this Preclassic Maya civilization has been documented by scholars over the past three decades: what had been seen as an age of simple village farming, belatedly responding to the stimulus of more advanced peoples in highland Mesoamerica, is now know to have been the period when the Maya made themselves into one of the New World's most innovative societies. This book discusses the most recent advances in our knowledge of the Preclassic Maya and the emergence of their rainforest civilization, with new data on settlement, political organization, architecture, iconography and epigraphy supporting a contemporary theoretical perspective that challenges prior assumptions.

Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Popol Vuh written by Lewis Spence and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Agreka Books
ISBN 13 : 1888106670
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragile Tears written by and published by Agreka Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories on the passing of beloved animal companions.

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Publisher : Agreka Books
ISBN 13 : 9781888106664
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Angels Wings Ll written by and published by Agreka Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Takeshi Inomata
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429977166
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya written by Takeshi Inomata and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes of Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya provide current archaeological perspectives on Maya courts conceived as vital, functioning social groups composed of lords, courtiers, scribes, priests, and entertainers, among many others. In addition to archaeological data on the architecture and other spatial attributes of courts, the studies in the two volumes bring to bear on the topic the most recent evidence from inscriptions, vase paintings, murals and friezes, and ethnohistoric records in order to flesh out a portrait of the actors and roles that made up Maya courts through time and across space. The attributes of courts are explored in the Maya highlands and lowlands, from the origins of early kingship through the Classic period to the Postclassic and Terminal epochs. Pertinent comparisons are also drawn from the Aztecs and other ancient and contemporary societies. Volume 1: Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis establishes a carefully considered framework for approaching the study of courts and their functions throughout the world of the ancient Maya. Volume 2: Data and Case Studies provides authoritatively current data and insights from key Maya sites, including Cop Tikal, Caracol, Bonampak, and Calakmul.

Author : John Major Jenkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591438098
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 written by John Major Jenkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While researching the 2012 end-date of the Maya Calendar, John Major Jenkins decoded the Maya's galactic cosmology. The Maya discovered that the periodic alignment of the Sun with the center of the Milky Way galaxy is the formative influence on human evolution. These alignments also define a series of World Ages. The fourth age ends on December 21, 2012, when an epoch chapter in human history will come to an end. Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 reveals the Maya's insight into the cyclic nature of time, and prepares us for our own cosmogenesis--the birth of a new world.