num_pages: 336
description: This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
language: English
title: Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
titlecomplete: Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos (Religion in North America)
ratings_count: 7
series: Religion in North America
publisher: Indiana University Press