Time and the ancestors : Aztec and Mixtec ritual art / by Maarten Jansen, Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2017).

Machine generated contents note: 1. Mesoamerica: Historical Development -- 2. Ancient Scriptures -- 3. Main Cycles of the Calendar -- 4. First Day-Keepers -- 5. Denial of Coevalness -- 6. Methodological Concerns -- 7. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- pt. 1 Offering to the Sacred Bundles -- 1. Tomb 7 at Monte Alban -- 1. Deposition of Two Periods -- 2. Human Remains in Tomb 7 -- 3. Ancient Literary Context -- 4. Calendar Dates in Tomb 7 -- 5. Connections with Nuu Dzaui History -- 6. Connections with Beni Zaa History -- 7. Female Agency -- 8. Revisiting Tomb 7 -- 9. Approaching the Relics -- 10. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 2. Life -- Death -- Life -- 1. Tale of a Grandmother -- 2. Nahua and Maya Parallels -- 3. Symbolic Dimension -- 4. Cihuacoatl and Lady 9 Grass -- 5. Mortuary Bundles -- 6. Divine Ancestors -- 7. Communication with the Dead -- 8. Golden Ornament Number 26 -- 9. Subterraneous Sanctuary -- 10. Internal Organisation of Tomb 7 -- 11. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 3. Hymns of Jaguars and Eagles -- 1. Flower, Song -- 2. Tree of the Dynasty -- 3. Tree Birth at Apoala -- 4. War against the Stone Men -- 5. First Sunrise and the Cycle of Time -- 6. Pulque Ritual -- 7. Realm of the Dead -- 8. Lady 4 Rabbit ̀Quetzal' -- 9. Marital Alliance -- 10. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 4. Memory and Oracle -- 1. Chalcatzingo: The Preclassic Template -- 2. Occasions for Precious Offerings -- 3. Ballcourt Pendant -- 4. Sacred Flint -- 5. Temple of Jewels -- 6. Identifying Monte Alban in the Codices -- 7. Lady 6 Monkey at Monte Alban -- 8. Funerary Ceremony for Lord 12 Movement -- 9. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- pt. 2 Preparing the New Fire -- 5. Foundation of a Dynasty -- 1. Pictorial Manuscripts from the Coixtlahuaca Valley -- 2. Couple in Heaven -- 3. Chicomoztoc -- 4. Religious Peregrination -- 5. Sacred Mountain -- 6. Primordial Conquest -- 7. Lady 13 Alligator, the Peacemaker -- 8. Atonal, First Ruler of Coixtlahuaca -- 9. Lord 8 Deer and Quetzalcoatl -- 10. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 6. Fifth Sun Rising -- 1. Inauguration of the Templo Mayor -- 2. Cihuacoatl: Goddess and Priest -- 3. Stone of Tizoc -- 4. Calendar Stone -- 5. Moctezuma's Altar -- 6. Binding of 52 Years -- 7. Ceremonial Landscape of Mount Huixachtlan -- 8. Moctezuma and Ce Acatl -- 9. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 7. Sanctuary of Night and Wind -- 1. Historical Background of Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia) -- 2. Studies of Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia) -- 3. Point of Departure for a New Reading -- 4. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 29: Vision -- 5. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 30: Bloodletting for Trees -- 6. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 31: Transformation of Death into Life -- 7. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 32: Preparing the Knife -- 8. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Pages 33 -- 34: The Temple of Heaven -- 9. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Pages 35 -- 38: Opening the Sacred Bundle -- 10. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Pages 39 -- 40: The Night Sun -- 11. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Pages 41 -- 42: Sacrifice -- 12. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 43: Sustenance -- 13. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 44: Rulership -- 14. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 45: Venus -- 15. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 46: Fire-making -- 16. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 47: Men and Women -- 17. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- Synthesis: Heritage and Spirit Connection -- 1. Root Symbolism -- 2. Tomb 7: A Dynastic Shrine -- 3. Continuous Presence of Cihuacoatl -- 4. Intercultural Time and Decolonising Perspective -- 5. Final Image.

In Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art , Maarten Jansen and Aurora Pérez present new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico. Combining iconographical analysis with the study of archaeological contexts, historical sources and living cultural traditions, they shed light on central symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples, paying special attention to precolonial perceptions of time and the importance of ancestor worship. They decipher the meaning of the treasure deposited in Tomb 7 at Monte Albán (Oaxaca) and of artworks such as the Roll of the New Fire (Selden Roll), the Aztec religious sculptures and, last but not least, the mysterious chapter of temple scenes from the Book of Night and Wind (Codex Borgia).

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