Ancient Spirituality Of The Modern Maya

by Hart, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780826343505
• ISBN10: 0826343503
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

The myth and ceremony of Maya beliefs have been sustained for over five hundred years in spite of massacres, persecution, and discrimination.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
All God's Children: The Coming of Christianity	p. 9
Adoring the World: The Mayan Vision of God	p. 27
Sacred Time: The Mayan Calendar	p. 39
Presents for the World: Mayan Ceremonies	p. 51
Sacred Places: Shrines and Altars	p. 73
You Need the Driver: The Mayan Priesthood	p. 89
Putting a Question: Divination	p. 107
The Owners of Sickness: Illness and Curing	p. 119
Here Is Our Mother: Corn and the Maya	p. 131
Enchanted Hills: Spirits of the Earth	p. 141
Stones of the World: Ancient Relics	p. 163
A Different Person, a Different God: Maximon and the Saints	p. 175
Sometimes the Dream Is True: Revelations in Dreams	p. 193
They Give Signs: Animal Portents	p. 199
"We say there's no Heaven and there's no Hell": Death and After	p. 205
Coming Out of the Shadows: Mayan Spirituality in the Modern World	p. 219
Afterword	p. 227
Notes	p. 231
Glossary	p. 251
Bibliography	p. 254
Notes on Contributors	p. 261
Index	p. 267
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