El poder de las plantas sagradas en el universo maya
By: coordinadora, Mercedes de la Garza
Contributors: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Centro de Estudios Mayas
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Estudios Mayas del Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Published: 2019
Place of publication: México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9786073025485
Subjects: Mayas; Ethnobotany; Antiquities; Indians of Mexico; Plants; Mythology; Useful Plants
Description: Like all cultures, the Mayans have registered their sacred plants, whether in symbolic representations of deities, in myths, ceremonial rites, plastic manifestations, beliefs, prayers, magical practices, healing remedies, arts popular or traditions in general. All religious peoples have considered sacred plants as bearers of supernatural forces, insofar as they reveal a power or qualities proper to deities; or as prodigious beings themselves for leading to religious experiences. These are plants that are a revelation of something that transcends them, and therefore become meaningful to the community, and become symbols. They can manifest sacredness by its exceptional shape, by its size, its colors, smells, or by its beauty; for its poison, its power to alter consciousness, its healing qualities, its capacity for regeneration, or its supreme value in the plant world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introducción; title: CAPITULO I. Sobre la sacralidad del mundo vegetal / Mercedes de la Garza; title: CAPITULO II. Suhuy xiuw: las plantas sagradas de los mayas peninsulares / Javier Hirse López; title: CAPITULO III. Las plantas sagradas mayas y su utilización por los especialistas ah dzaco'ob en los rituales de curación / M. Genoveva R. Ocampo Rosales; title: CAPITULO IV. Plantas con poderes cetónicos y celestes cardinales en la cosmología maya del Yucatán colonial / Mónica Chávez Guzmán; title: CAPITULO V. Los códices mayas, universos vegetales / Laura Elena Sotelo Santos; title: CAPITULO VI. Árboles frutales y antepasados dinásticos. Visiones de ancestros en el sarcófago de K'inich Janaahb Pakal / Guillermo Bernal Romero; title: CAPITULO VII. Sak naab. La flor divina del agua. Un acercamiento a su significado simbólico y su ritual / Mercedes de la Garza.