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The Fifth Sun
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

The Fifth Sun

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Empire of the Inca
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Empire of the Inca

Examines the major factors responsible for the cultural achievements of the Inca Empire

The Fifth Sun
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

The Fifth Sun

The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. The Fifth Sun represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it—Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird. Burr Cartwright Brundage explores the myths behind these and others in the Aztec pantheon in a way that illuminates both the human and the divine in Aztec life. The cult of human sacrifice is a pervasive theme in this study. It is a concept that permeated Aztec mythology and was the central preoccupation of the aggre...

This Tree Grows Out of Hell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

This Tree Grows Out of Hell

Examines the Mayan, Aztec, and other related cultures from the perspective of each region's shifting understanding of the human soul. The author shows that despite their amazing achievements, these civilisations eventually crumbled because they lost touch with their sense of community, their true natures and their environments.

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 618
An Alternative View of the Distant Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

An Alternative View of the Distant Past

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-12-21
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

This book is a multidisciplinary study that brings together a variety of ancient physical and legendary evidences that are often brushed aside, which collectively present an entirely different, and far more sensible, picture of early Earth and human history from what mainstream academic presents. Break yourself free from their chains and discover a fascinating story of the ancient past that will blow your mind!

Fifty Years of Good Reading
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Fifty Years of Good Reading

50 year since founding the University of Texas, they have witnessed major evolutions in the world of publishing.

Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex

The first translation of a previously unknown Aztec codex and its initiatory teachings for 2012 • Discloses the potential for great spiritual awakening offered at the end of the Aztec calendar cycle • Presents the only existing English-language transcription of the Aztec codex, with line-by-line commentary • Contains the epic poetry and metaphysical insights of Beat poet Marty Matz (1934–2001 In 1961 an unknown Aztec codex was revealed to Beat poet and explorer Marty Matz by a Mazatec shaman in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Originally intended for dramatic performance, this codex presents a profound metaphysical teaching describing how the end of time will bring about a visionary ...

Decolonizing Ecotheology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Decolonizing Ecotheology

Decolonizing Ecotheology: Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges is a pioneering attempt to contest the politics of conquest, commodification, and homogenization in mainstream ecotheology, informed by the voices of Indigenous and subaltern communities from around the world. The book marshals a robust polyphony of reportage, wonder, analysis, and acumen seeking to open the door to a different prospect for a planet under grave duress and a different self-assessment for our own species in the mix. At the heart of that prospect is an embrace of soils and waters as commons and a privileging of subaltern experience and marginalized witness as the bellwethers of greatest import. Of course, decolonization finds its ultimate test in the actual return of land and waters to precontact Indigenous who yet have feet on the ground or paddles in the waves, and who conjure dignity and vision in the manifold of their relations, in spite of ceaseless onslaught and dismissal. Their courage is the haunt these pages hallow like an Abel never entirely erased from the history. May the moaning stop and the re-creation begin!

A Moment's Notice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

A Moment's Notice

Focusing on the problem of time—the paradox of time's apparent universality and cultural relativity—Carol J. Greenhouse develops an original ethnographic account of our present moment, the much-heralded postmodern condition, which is at the same time a reflexive analysis of ethnography itself. She argues that time is about agency and accountability, and that representations of time are used by institutions of law, politics, and scholarship to selectively refashion popular ideas of agency into paradigms of institutional legitimacy. A Moment's Notice suggests that the problem of time in theory is the corollary of problems of power in practice.Greenhouse develops her theory in examinations of three moments of cultural and political crisis: the resistance of the Aztecs against Cortes, the consolidation of China's First Empire, and the recent partisan political contests over Supreme Court nominees in the United States. In each of these cases, temporal innovation is integral to political improvisation, as traditions of sovereignty confront new cultural challenges. These cases return the discussion to current issues of inequality, postmodernity, cultural pluralism, and ethnography.