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Thomas HartPublication Details
BookUniversity of New Mexico Press2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F1465.3.R4 H37 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN) New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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In The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya, Thomas Hart weaves together the stories and experiences of those who practice Maya spirituality today, based on the relationship between God, the World, and the Ancestors, and provides a sense of the Mayan worldview as it is revealed through myth, ceremony, and teaching. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- All god’s children : the coming of Christianity
- Adoring the world : the Mayan vision of god
- Sacred time : the Mayan calendar
- Presents for the world : Mayan ceremonies
- Sacred places : shrines and altars
- You need the driver : the Mayan priesthood
- Putting a question : divination
- The owners of sickness : illness and curing
- Here is our mother : corn and the Maya
- Enchanted hills : spirits of the earth
- Stones of the world : ancient relics
- A different person, a different god : Maximin and the saints
- Sometimes the dream is true : revelations in dreams
- They give signs : animal portents
- "We say there’s no heaven and there’s no hell" : death and after
- Coming out of the shadows : Mayan spirituality in the modern world
ISBN
- 9780826343505
- 0826343503
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