Lieux de culte et parcours cérémoniels dans les fêtes des vingtaines à Mexico - Tenochtitlan
By: Elena Mazzetto
Series: BAR international series -- 2661. -- Paris monographs in American archaeology -- 36; BAR international series -- 2661.; BAR international series -- 36.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: fre; spa; nah
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9781407313030
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Nahuas; Rites and ceremonies; Religion; Social life and customs; Sacred space; Nahua calendar
Description: This book analyzes the places of worship used during the eighteen feasts of the Nahua solar calendar, called "veintenas", and the ceremonial paths of the participants in the ceremonies in the Aztec capital of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. The work is based on the study of written sources of the sixteenth century, the pictographic manuscripts of pre-Hispanic times and their copies of the first colonial era, as well as archaeological data. In this way a comprehensive overview of the buildings and open spaces used during the monthly rites is presented. Each chapter is devoted to the study of a month and its ceremonies and is divided in two parts. As the first part describes the sacred spaces, the second one examines the ceremonial paths, its participants and the moments of realization. This investigation is enriched by the study of their localization in the sacred geography of the city. The conclusions obtained help to understand some of the new aspects of Aztec religious life: the symbolic significance of places of worship, the geographical distribution of the centers of supernatural power in the urban space and their usage. In this way, these data reflect the worldview of the ancient Nahuas. --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Revision of thesis, Ph. D., Université de Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne and Università degli studi di Venezia, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Text in French; short passages in Spanish and Nahuatl with French translation.