Feather Crown : The Eighteen Feasts of the Mexica Year

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Pub. Date: 2006-04-30
Publisher(s): David Brown Book Co
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Summary

An examination of the feasts of the Aztec or Mexica people, the correlations with other divisions of the year (solar, sidereal and civil), their interface with the Christian calendar, and the philosophical and imaginative wealth embedded in the feasts.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations iv
Photographic Acknowledgements iv
Preface ix
The Mexica Embodiment of the Year
1(18)
First sources
2(4)
Correlation and interface with Europe
6(5)
Eagle at Tenochtitlan
11(3)
Xiuhcoanaual, the protean year with a caiman head
14(5)
Missionaries and Scholars
19(12)
Orders from Rome, origins at home
19(3)
Towards restitution in Mexico
22(1)
Handlist, Katalog, Book of the Year
23(5)
Reading the text
28(3)
Fiscal Acquisition
31(10)
Metropolitan Tenochtitlan amid its bastions and provinces
31(3)
Semesters and quarters
34(2)
Oztoma: caiman cave as military redoubt
36(5)
Planting Seasons
41(8)
Weather and winds on Tlaloc's mountain
41(2)
Irrigation in Tititl
43(4)
Coatlan: caiman cave as water source
47(2)
`Like waves breaking': the Great Dance
49(8)
Page as stage
49(1)
Personae in gala performance
50(2)
Drama
52(5)
Prior Hosts
57(12)
Ilamatecutli: palatine nights and days
57(4)
Tepoztecatl: symposium under the stars
61(4)
Otontecutli: tree haft
65(4)
Anniversary Wheels
69(10)
Imperial Sunstone
71(2)
Altepetl Texcoco
73(1)
Second coming and eclipse
74(5)
Mexicanus
79(16)
All-seeing Tezcatlipoca
80(2)
Whose era encompasses whose?
82(4)
The planter's zodiac
86(1)
A priestly triptych
87(4)
Ground rules
91(4)
To End is to Begin
95(2)
Appendix: Nahuatl Texts in Translation 97(2)
Bibliography 99(3)
Index 102

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