Reshaping the World

Description:

"An exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models. That model comprised nine fixed layers of underworld and thirteen fixed layers of heavens"--

subjects: Cosmology,  Indians of mexico, religion,  Indians of central america, religion,  Indians of mexico, social life and customs,  Indians of central america, social life and customs,  Indian cosmology,  Indians of Mexico,  Religion,  Indians of Central America,  Rites and ceremonies