In the maw of the earth monster [electronic resource] : mesoamerican ritual cave use / edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer.
Contributor(s): Brady, James Edward | Prufer, Keith M. (Keith Malcolm) | ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies: Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005Edition: 1st ed.Description: viii, 438 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Indians of Mexico -- Rites and ceremonies | Indians of Mexico -- Religion | Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities | Caves -- Religious aspects | Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies | Mayas -- Religion | Mayas -- Antiquities | Mexico -- AntiquitiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.897/42 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : a history of Mesoamerican cave interpretation / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer -- Rites of passage and other ceremonies in caves / Doris Heyden -- The cave-pyramid complex among the contemporary Nahua of northern Veracruz / Alan R. Sandstrom -- Constructing mythic space : the significance of a chicomoztoc complex at Acatzingo Viejo / Manuel Aguilar ... [et al.] -- Pre-Hispanic rain ceremonies in Blade Cave, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico / Janet Fitzsimmons -- Sacred caves and rituals from the northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico : new revelations / Carlos Rinc�on Mautner -- Some notes on ritual caves among the ancient and modern Maya / Evon Z. Vogt and David Stuart -- Shamans, caves, and the roles of ritual specialists in Maya society / Keith M. Prufer -- Cave stelae and megalithic monuments in western Belize / Jaime J. Awe, Cameron Griffith, and Sherry Gibbs -- A cognitive approach to artifact distribution in caves of the Maya area / Andrea Stone -- Cluster concentrations, boundary markers, and ritual pathways : a GIS analysis of artifact cluster patterns at Actun Tunichil, Muknal, Belize / Holley Moyes -- Ethnographic notes on Maya Q'eqchi' cave rites : implications for archaeological interpretation / Abigail E. Adams and James E. Brady -- A Lacandon religious ritual in the cave of the god Tsiban�a at the holy lake of Mensabok in the rainforest of Chiapas / Jaroslaw Theodore Petryshyn -- Beneath the Yalahau : emerging patterns of ancient Maya ritual cave use from northern Quintana Roo, Mexico / Dominique Rissolo -- Caves, karst, and settlement at Mayap�an, Yucat�an / Clifford T. Brown -- Concluding comments / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady.
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