Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

by Kay Almere Read

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253334004
• ISBN13: 9780253334008
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"