The fate of earthly things : Aztec gods and god-bodies /
"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 th...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015. |
| Series: | Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
Table of 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 : the 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 modified by teo- in the Florentine Codex
- Appendix C. Turquoise, jet, and gold
- Notes
- Bibliography
- index.