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The Aztec pantheon in detail - Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli - with the calendar, the sacrifices and the codices they come from. Spence's fullest treatment of the material he spent his life on. This edition also binds in a gallery of five plates of fifteenth-century painting, among them works by Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca and Andrea del Castagno. Its 119 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.
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- Cover
- Copyright
- To My Wife, with Deepest Gratitude and Affection. Preface
- Note on the Pronunciation of Mexican
- Chapter I. Introductory
- Chapter II. Cosmogony
- Chapter III. The Great Gods
- Chapter IV. The Creative Deities
- Chapter V. Deities of the Earth and Growth Proper. Introductory
- Aspect and Insignia (as Macuilxochitl)
- Aspect and Insignia (as Xochipilli)
- Chapter VI. The Gods of Rain and Moisture. Introductory
- Chapter VII. The Fire-Gods
- (The Fire-gods)
- Chapter VIII. The Octli or Pulque (Drink) Gods
- Allusions to the Octli-Gods in General
- Mayauel = “She of the Maguey-Plant”
- Chapter IX. Stellar and Planetary Deities
- Chapter X. Gods of Death, Earth, and the Underworld
- Chapter XI. Variants of the Great Gods
- Chapter XII. Minor Deities
- Appendix. The Tonalamatl and the Solar Calendar
- The Tonalamatl and the Solar Calendar
- Short Bibliography of Works Relating to the Tonalamatl
- A Bibliography of Mexican Religion
- Part I
- Part II
- Bibliography of the Codices Relating to Mexican Mythology. I. Interpretative Codices
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Author
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