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Aztec goddesses. --- Goddesses, Aztec

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Cet ouvrage est une contribution à l'étude des pictographies aztèques considérées non seulement dans leur rôle de symboles, mais aussi en tant que composantes d'un système d'écriture, progressivement déchiffré par des équipes mexicaines et françaises dans les deux pays, l'impulsion originelle ayant été donnée par M. Joaquin Galarza. Le livre, abondamment illustré, analyse de façon exhaustive la représentation de la divinité Xipe Totec, et celle de trois de ses rituels les plus importants : l'écorchement, le sacrifice dit « du gladiateur » et celui dit « des flèches ». L'auteur présente en annexe les sources du xvie siècle contenant des références à cette divinité, ainsi qu'un glossaire de termes nahuatl. Il évoque en guise d'épilogue des rituels analogues qui se manifestent dans l'Amérique précolombienne.

Xipe Totec (Aztec deity) --- Nahuatl language --- Writing. --- Aztec hieroglyphics --- Aztecs --- Hieroglyphics, Aztec --- Picture-writing, Aztec --- Tlaxcalan Indians --- Flayed God (Aztec deity) --- Aztec gods --- Writing --- pictographie --- glyphe --- Xipe Totec --- rituel --- spiritualité

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"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 three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion--teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)--to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world. In The Fate of Earthly Things, Molly Bassett draws on ethnographic fieldwork, linguistic analyses, visual culture, and ritual studies to explore what ritual practices such as human sacrifice and the manufacture of deity embodiments (including humans who became gods), material effigies, and sacred bundles meant to the Aztecs. She analyzes the Aztec belief that wearing the flayed skin of a sacrificial victim during a sacred rite could transform a priest into an embodiment of a god or goddess, as well as how figurines and sacred bundles could become localized embodiments of gods. Without arguing for unbroken continuity between the Aztecs and modern speakers of Nahuatl, Bassett also describes contemporary rituals in which indigenous Mexicans who preserve costumbres (traditions) incorporate totiotzin (gods) made from paper into their daily lives. This research allows us to understand a religious imagination that found life in death and believed that deity embodiments became animate through the ritual binding of blood, skin, and bone"--

Aztecs --- Aztec gods. --- Religion. --- Rites and ceremonies.

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An interdisciplinary study investigating how the name and portrait of Moteuczoma (a.k.a. Moctezuma/Montezuma) II were represented in Aztec monuments and colonial manuscripts and how the concept of fame operated in the Aztec world.

Aztec art. --- Aztecs --- Kings and rulers. --- Montezuma --- Montezuma

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In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality.0Laack transcends the concept of "sacred scripture" traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. 0This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas.

Nahuatl language --- Nahuas --- Aztec cosmology. --- Writing. --- Religion. --- Aztecs --- Aztec cosmology --- 299.77 --- Cosmology, Aztec --- Cosmology --- Aztec hieroglyphics --- Hieroglyphics, Aztec --- Picture-writing, Aztec --- Tlaxcalan Indians --- 299.77 Godsdiensten van de Middenamerikaanse Indianen: Mexicanen; Azteken; Tolteken; Tzapoteken; Maya's --- Godsdiensten van de Middenamerikaanse Indianen: Mexicanen; Azteken; Tolteken; Tzapoteken; Maya's --- Writing --- Religion