The Plumed Serpent Quetzalcoatl

Author : Virginia M. Fields
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781857597417
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Plumed Serpent written by Virginia M. Fields and published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Apr. 1-July 1, 2012 and at the Dallas Museum of Art, July 29-Nov. 25, 2012.

Author : Neil Baldwin
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610392698
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Plumed Serpent written by Neil Baldwin and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously pieced together from personal experiences that come with years of travel, an extensive knowledge of the historic and scholarly works, and a deep appreciation of Latin American art and culture—both ancient and modern—critically-acclaimed biographer Neil Baldwin has created a mosaic of words and images retelling the myth of the Plumed Serpent (or Quetzalcóatl) as it has evolved through the millennia. He has also created an essential guidebook for the armchair traveller and passionate tourist alike. Only a few hours by air from the United States are the mysteries and hauntingly beautiful ruins of Mexico. Among the vines intertwined in the frail latticework of crumbling palaces, spiraling geometric motifs covering vast walls that sink beneath the jungle, and nearly vertical temple steps leading hundreds of feet to a dizzying view of sky and earth, images of Quetzalcóatl abound. The fanged, bug-eyed feathered serpent thrusts his malevolent, sneering head from the pyramid at Teotihuacán; he swims in a river of rock around the temple at Xochicalco; and at Chichén Itzá, serpent and jaguar dance on a trail of stone, their embrace spawning a monstrous snake with clawed forefeet. Depicted as part man, snake, and bird, the Plumed Serpent is the earliest known creation myth from Mesoamerica, the region spanning Mexico and most of Central America. He embodies good and evil, sky and earth, feast and famine—the duality of life itself. Steep, massive temples were built in his honor at Teotihuacán, the vast city of ruins near today’s Mexico City, and at Chichén Itzá in northern Yucatán, the intricate complex that includes the famed ballcourt. Moctezuma, the ruler of the Aztecs, mistook Hernán Cortéz and the invasion of the Spanish in 1519 for the return of Quetzalcóatl. The Catholic Church with its army of Franciscan monks adapted his legend to introduce the indigenous people to Catholicism. The myth enhanced Emiliano Zapata’s stature as a latter-day Quetzalcóatl during the Mexican Revolution. Diego Rivera and the modern muralists invoked his image to include indigenous themes in their state-sponsored art. And Quetzalcóatl inspired English author D. H. Lawrence to write a new “American novel.” These and many other tales are recounted in the words and images of Neil Baldwin’s Legends of the Plumed Serpent. Whether sharing a moment of reflection among the breathtaking ruins, delving into the historic role of Quetzalcóatl during the Spanish Conquest, or tracing the themes of revolution and rebirth in the art of Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros, Neil Baldwin’s enlightening prose captures the imagination. Accompanied by numerous illustrations—many photographs taken by the author, and others painstakingly researched and gathered over the past decade—Legends of the Plumed Serpent is a true labor of love.

Author : Enrique Florescano
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871016
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Quetzalcoatl written by Enrique Florescano and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-11-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study, Enrique Florescano traces the spread of the worship of the Plumed Serpent, and the multiplicity of interpretations that surround him, by comparing the Palenque inscriptions (ca. A.D. 690), the Vienna Codex (pre-Hispanic Conquest), the Historia de los Mexicanos (1531), the Popul Vuh (ca. 1554), and numerous other texts. He also consults and reproduces archeological evidence from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, demonstrating how the myth of Quetzalcoatl extends throughout Mesoamerica.

Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427045542
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plumed Serpent written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1952 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of the Mexican Revolution, a group of tourists are visiting a bullfight in Mexico City. One of them, Kate Leslie, departs in disgust and encounters Don Cipriano, a Mexican general. Later she meets his friend, intellectual land-owner Don Ramon, and travels to Sayula, a small town set on a lake. Ramon and Cipriano are leading a revival of a pre-Christian religion and Kate becomes drawn into their cult.

Author : Tony Shearer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord of the Dawn written by Tony Shearer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the 1971 classic by Tony Shearer is about Quetzalcoatl, the great Indian culture hero of ancient Mexico. Learn about his birth, life, and teachings; and especially his exciting prophecy of the thirteen heavens and the nine hells, after which the Tree of Life shall blossom with a fruit never known before. Background information about the Eagle Bowl and the sacred calendar, by which the people lived, gives the reader a clearer understanding of the story.

Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : Aegitas
ISBN 13 : 0369407083
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plumed Serpent written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a European woman and s self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence and s mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination.

Author : Burr Cartwright Brundage
Publisher : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806117737
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phoenix of the Western World written by Burr Cartwright Brundage and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl) written by D. H. Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Girvin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781409724131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plumed Serpent written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Girvin Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the first volume of Charles James Lever s phenomenally popular 1840 novel, "Charles O Malley: The Irish Dragoon." This fantastic novel would make for a great addition to any bookshelf, and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of Lever s seminal work. Charles James Lever (1806 - 1872) was an Irish novelist. Other works by this author include: "The Dodd Family Abroad" (1854) and "Nuts and Nutcrackers" (1845). Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author."

Author : Burr Cartwright Brundage
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292756054
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Sun written by Burr Cartwright Brundage and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. The Fifth Sun represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it—Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird. Burr Cartwright Brundage explores the myths behind these and others in the Aztec pantheon in a way that illuminates both the human and the divine in Aztec life. The cult of human sacrifice is a pervasive theme in this study. It is a concept that permeated Aztec mythology and was the central preoccupation of the aggressive Aztec state. Another particularly interesting belief explored here is the “mask pool,” whereby gods could exchange regalia and, thus, identities. This vivid and eminently readable study also covers the use of hallucinogens; cannibalism; the calendars of ancient Mexico; tlachtli, the life-and-death ball game; the flower wars; divine transfiguration; and the evolution of the war god of the Mexica. A splendid introduction to Aztec religion, The Fifth Sun also contains insights for specialists in ethnohistory, mythology, and religion.