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Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780253334008
- ISBN-10: 0253334004
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Publish Date: July 1998
- Dimensions: 9.47 x 6.51 x 1.27 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.49 pounds
- Page Count: 336
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