The apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal
Subtitle: science, history, and religion at classic Maya Palenque
By: Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos.
Series: Mesoamerican worlds
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780870818660
Subjects: Maya astronomy -- Mexico -- Palenque (Chiapas); Maya cosmology -- Mexico -- Palenque (Chiapas); Mayan languages -- Writing; Palenque Site (Mexico)
Description: "The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal takes up anew the riddles within a number of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions first recognized by Floyd Lounsbury. Gerardo Aldana unpacks these mathematical riddles, using an approach grounded in a reading of the texts made possible by recent advances in hieroglyphic decipherment. Using a history of science methodology, he expands upon (and sometimes questions) the foundational work of archaeoastronomers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New life at B'aakal; title: Recovering Maya astronomy; title: Computing history; title: Errors and identities; title: The public face of re-creation; title: Re-creation through K'awiilian astronomy; title: Zuyuathan : secret knowledge and the maintenance of power.