Cuevas y cenotes mayas
Subtitle: una mirada multidisciplinaria
By: Roberto Romero Sandoval (editor)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Published: 2016
Place of publication: México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9786070273759
Subjects: Mayas; Religion
Description: The book addresses various aspects of these extraordinary karst formations from different perspectives. The work is composed of three sections. In the first, dedicated to the caves, history and epigraphy comprises two studies: one concerning the god Chaahk and his activity in the caves, and another about the Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions in various caves. In the second part, reserved for caves and the underworld, historiography and ethnology, are presented in new reflections on the ideas that the ancient Maya had about these sacred spaces, as well as its remarkable continuity in the cosmovision of present communities. In the third and last section, the first chapter discusses the mortuary treatment practiced in the cenotes Canun (Yucatán) and in Las Calaveras (Quintana Roo), ), through underwater archaeology, and the second chapter accounts for the trade route of the pendant "Darien" discovered in the Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá, from the place of its production to its final destination.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cuevas y montañas sagradas : espacios de legitimación y ritural del dios maya de la lluvia / Ana García Barrios; title: Apelativos y nociones relacionados con las cuevas en las inscripciones mayas / Alejandro Sheseña; title: El infierno en el inframundo maya : la visión de los frailes sobre el mundo inferior / Roberto Romero Sandoval; title: Habitantes del mundo suterráneso : xi'bajob y wuyoh en la cosmovisión ch'ol de Chiapas / Daniel Moreno Zaragoza; title: Tratamientos morturarios acuáticos de los centoes entre los mayas prehispánicos / Carmen Rojas, Martha E. Benavente, Alejandro Terrazas, Arturo H. González, Jerónimo Avilés y Eugenio Acévez; title: Bitácora de un colgante Darién en el Cenote Sagrado de Chichén Itzá / Antonio Jaramillo Arango.