In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy-- the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmicnarrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.
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In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy-- the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmicnarrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.
Imprint | University Of Texas Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | 2007 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 2007 |
Authors | Elizabeth Hill Boone |
Dimensions | 279 x 216 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - With dust jacket / With dust jacket |
Pages | 338 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-292-71263-8 |
Barcode | 9780292712638 |
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LSN | 0-292-71263-4 |