The myth of Quetzalcoatl [electronic resource] : religion, rulership, and history in the Nahua world / Alfredo López Austin ; translated by Russ Davidson with Guilhem Olivier.
2015
F1219.3.R38 L5913 2015eb
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The myth of Quetzalcoatl [electronic resource] : religion, rulership, and history in the Nahua world / Alfredo López Austin ; translated by Russ Davidson with Guilhem Olivier.
Uniform Title
Hombre-dios. English
ISBN
9781607323990 (electronic book)
9781607323907
9781607323907
Published
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the Spanish.
Description
1 online resource (xx, 229 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
F1219.3.R38 L5913 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
972
Summary
"The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin's 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y politica en el mundo náhuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this is the first English translation of the work"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index.
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Table of Contents
Reed
The initial focus of foreign origin
The skeptical focus
The critical focus
The end of a truncated history and its consequences
Men and gods
Space and time
The nature of the man-god
The life of the man-god
The history of the man-god.
The initial focus of foreign origin
The skeptical focus
The critical focus
The end of a truncated history and its consequences
Men and gods
Space and time
The nature of the man-god
The life of the man-god
The history of the man-god.