The Fate of Earthly Things : : Aztec Gods and God-Bodies /

The Fate of Earthly Things : : Aztec Gods and God-Bodies / / Molly H. Bassett.

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Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a “god” (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts tha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Bassett, Molly H.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 7 b&w illus., 26 b&w photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION > God-Bodies, Talk-Makers: Deity Embodiments in Nahua Religions
  • CHAPTER 1 > Meeting the Gods
  • CHAPTER 2 > Ethnolinguistic Encounters: Teotl and Teixiptla in Nahuatl Scholarship
  • CHAPTER 3 > Divining the Meaning of Teotl
  • CHAPTER 4 > Gods in the Flesh: Th e Animation of Aztec Teixiptlahuan
  • CHAPTER 5 > Wrapped in Cloth, Clothed in Skins: Aztec Tlaquimilolli (Sacred Bundles) and Deity Embodiment
  • CONCLUSION > Fates and Futures: Conclusions and New Directions
  • APPENDIX A. Ixiptla Variants in Early Lexicons
  • APPENDIX B. A List of Terms Modifi ed by Teo- in the Florentine Codex
  • APPENDIX C. Turquoise, Jet, and Gold
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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