The rabbit on the face of the moon : mythology in the mesoamerican tradition / Alfredo López-Austin ; translated by Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano and Thelma Ortiz de Montellano.
"The Rabbit on the Face of the Moon is a collection of articles on mythology in the Mesoamerican tradition by Alfredo Lopez Austin, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Mesoamerican thought. Their span is diverse: myths and names, eclipses, stars, left and right, Mexica origins, Aztec incantation...
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Language: | English |
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Spanish |
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
[1996], ©1996.
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MSU: License agreement restricts access to one user at a time. |
Physical Description: | xvii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- 1. The Rabbit on the Face of the Moon
- 2. Myths and Names
- 3. Invention and Discovery in the Mythical Concept of the World
- 4. Clay
- 5. The Words of the Incantation
- 6. Myths in the Mesoamerican Religious Tradition
- 7. Sayings
- 8. An Amazing Fruit
- 9. The Miracle of the Eagle and the Cactus
- 10. The Eclipse
- 11. The Antichrist and the Suns
- 12. Tales about Opossums
- 13. The Name Tarasca
- 14. Our First Parents
- 15. The Left Hand, the Right Hand
- 16. Complements and Compositions
- 17. Synonymies
- 18. Ziryab.