Rostros de la divinidad
Subtitle: los mosaicos mayas de piedra verde
By: Sofia Martínez del Campo Lanz
Contributors: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico)
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Published: 2010
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9789680303564
Subjects: Maya masks; Kings and rulers; Antiquities; Mayas; Jade art objects
Description: Exhibition shows the importance of the rulers of the Maya Classic period (250-900 AD), power, symbolism and divine, through the display of masks, grave objects, and funerary complexes of the rulers buried in five major temples of Mayan cities: Palenque, Calakmul, Dzibanché, Oxkintok and Rovirosa. The research and restoration of the 13 masks, allowed the identification in 8 of them the faces of nobles of the Classic period, possibly contributing to the rise of dynastic power of civilization, in the remaining 6, images of deities used to monitor the actions of the Lords Maya. In each case, the body and face of the rulers were reflected in elements that characterized and made possible identification, the incorporation of the funerary objects, in turn, gave them divine powers to confront the lords of death in the underworld and ascend to the celestial plane become the god of corn.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-283).
Table of contents: title: Presentaciones; title: Agradecimientos; title: Preámbulo / Roberto García Moll; title: Introducción; title: El universo maya del periodo Clásico; title: La máscara en el arte ritual; title: La conservación para restablecer la percepción de los objetos; title: Palenque; title: Calakmul; title: Oxkintok; title: La deformación cefálica, una constante en los rostros representados; title: Colapso y descubrimiento de la civilización maya del Clásico; title: Regreso a Palenque : el universo ritual en el interior del Templo de las Inscripciones; title: Línea del tiempo; title: Territorio maya; title: Notas; title: Bibliografía; title: Apéndices; title: Créditos Institucionales.