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Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

Hardcover

Series: Religion in North America

Religion General General ChristianityMexican History

ISBN10: 0253334004
ISBN13: 9780253334008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jul 22 1998
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.27 Width: 6.51 Depth: 9.47
Language: English

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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