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Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

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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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