Author: Graham Hancock
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 1444788388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Graham Hancock, an expert in ancient civilisations and author of the 9 million selling Fingerprints of the Gods, and expert too, on the use of hallucinogens to achieve higher states of consciousness, brings these two interests together in the second volume of the War God trilogy. The conquistador Hernán Cortés is dreaming of Tenochtitlan, the golden city of Aztecs. But in order to win the Aztecs' gold, Cortés and his small force of just five hundred men will have to defeat the psychotic emperor Moctezuma and the armies of hundreds of thousands he commands. Cortés expects that the Tlascalans, hereditary enemies of the Aztecs, will join him, but instead finds himself locked in a deadly struggle. As Cortés risks all against the Tlascalans, he plays mind games with Moctezuma, aiming to defeat the Aztec emperor psychologically before ever having to face him in battle. In this he is aided by his lover Malinal, a beautiful Mayan princess. It is from Malinal that Cortés learns of the myth of Quetzalcoatl, 'The Plumed Serpent'. She shows him how to exploit the prophecy of the fabled god king's return to weaken Moctezuma's resolve and keep alive the suspicion that the conquistador might actually be Quetzalcoatl himself.
Author: Neil Baldwin
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610392698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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Meticulously pieced together from personal experiences that come with years of travel, an extensive knowledge of the historic and scholarly works, and a deep appreciation of Latin American art and culture—both ancient and modern—critically-acclaimed biographer Neil Baldwin has created a mosaic of words and images retelling the myth of the Plumed Serpent (or Quetzalcóatl) as it has evolved through the millennia. He has also created an essential guidebook for the armchair traveller and passionate tourist alike. Only a few hours by air from the United States are the mysteries and hauntingly beautiful ruins of Mexico. Among the vines intertwined in the frail latticework of crumbling palaces, spiraling geometric motifs covering vast walls that sink beneath the jungle, and nearly vertical temple steps leading hundreds of feet to a dizzying view of sky and earth, images of Quetzalcóatl abound. The fanged, bug-eyed feathered serpent thrusts his malevolent, sneering head from the pyramid at Teotihuacán; he swims in a river of rock around the temple at Xochicalco; and at Chichén Itzá, serpent and jaguar dance on a trail of stone, their embrace spawning a monstrous snake with clawed forefeet. Depicted as part man, snake, and bird, the Plumed Serpent is the earliest known creation myth from Mesoamerica, the region spanning Mexico and most of Central America. He embodies good and evil, sky and earth, feast and famine—the duality of life itself. Steep, massive temples were built in his honor at Teotihuacán, the vast city of ruins near today’s Mexico City, and at Chichén Itzá in northern Yucatán, the intricate complex that includes the famed ballcourt. Moctezuma, the ruler of the Aztecs, mistook Hernán Cortéz and the invasion of the Spanish in 1519 for the return of Quetzalcóatl. The Catholic Church with its army of Franciscan monks adapted his legend to introduce the indigenous people to Catholicism. The myth enhanced Emiliano Zapata’s stature as a latter-day Quetzalcóatl during the Mexican Revolution. Diego Rivera and the modern muralists invoked his image to include indigenous themes in their state-sponsored art. And Quetzalcóatl inspired English author D. H. Lawrence to write a new “American novel.” These and many other tales are recounted in the words and images of Neil Baldwin’s Legends of the Plumed Serpent. Whether sharing a moment of reflection among the breathtaking ruins, delving into the historic role of Quetzalcóatl during the Spanish Conquest, or tracing the themes of revolution and rebirth in the art of Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros, Neil Baldwin’s enlightening prose captures the imagination. Accompanied by numerous illustrations—many photographs taken by the author, and others painstakingly researched and gathered over the past decade—Legends of the Plumed Serpent is a true labor of love.
Author: Virginia M. Fields
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
ISBN: 9781857597417
Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Apr. 1-July 1, 2012 and at the Dallas Museum of Art, July 29-Nov. 25, 2012.
Author: Mark Amaru Pinkham
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 193548737X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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According to ancient records, the patriarchs and founders of the early civilizations in Egypt, India, China, Peru, Mesopotamia, Britain, and the Americas were colonized by the Serpents of Wisdom-spiritual masters associated with the serpent-who arrived in these lands after abandoning their beloved homelands and crossing great seas. While bearing names denoting snake or dragon (such as Naga, Lung, Djedhi, Amaru, Quetzalcoatl, Adder, etc.), these Serpents of Wisdom oversaw the construction of magnificent civilizations within which they and their descendants served as the priest kings and as the enlightened heads of mystery school traditions. The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom recounts the history of these “Serpents”-where they came from, why they came, the secret wisdom they disseminated, and why they are returning now.
Author: Barbara Brenner
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780394845319
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Michael's knowledge of Mexican history and Elena's taste for adventure help the twins unravel the mystery of the golden snake.
Author: D. Bruce Means
Publisher: Pineapple Press
ISBN: 1561646229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Based on his more than 40 years of field research, Means, an expert on the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, reveals the biological complexity and beauty of the animals he has studied. In Australia, Means searches for the fiercey, reputed to be the worlds deadliest terrestrial snake. In Mexico, he stalks the rattlesnake that might have served as the model for the mythical plumed serpent of Mayan art. In Florida, he is chased by cottonmouth moccasins. Through his experiences, Means hopes that readers will gain a new appreciation for animals called herps, or creepy-crawly things.
Author: Eileen Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692840160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The courageous story of how one American woman transcended normal. That is, she rediscovered the natural human state beneath the past trauma and conditioning of "life as we've always known it." Her transformational story is told through the inner, feminine view of a lifetime of Angel-ET visits, and numerous Kundalini-Koyopa episodes in the physical body. The nonhuman intelligence "spoke" in frequency, and informed her of humanity's evolutionary leap in consciousness at this definitive crossroads in time. She was shown that everyone is wired within to accept, integrate, and move forward with these shifts, but it is a choice. Through a unique practice of honesty and innocence, she was guided to tune into and translate the resonance which began "filling in" the bulk of what had been conditioned out of most of humanity - the feeling-knowing wisdom of the feminine. The more she adapted to her own signature frequency, the more she felt and understood the universal tones of nonhuman intelligence. It made for a challenging life of attempting to appear normal, even when each visit would wipe out her entire worldview. Ultimately, a critical fork-in-the-road decision needed to be made: Be true to herself and honest with her community about what she was experiencing and remembering; or squish back into the insane, tight masks and clothing of conditioning that we were taught to believe was "life." There is so much more. In the change of cycles, the Maya prophesied the Return of the Plumed Serpent. This story points to a 26,000 year old alignment - in both the cosmos and the human body. The Author states that words and concepts don't really matter in these high-vibratory states - because when they occur, you cannot think. It's more about adapting to high frequencies in the body, healing and releasing the past, practicing present-moment attention, and embracing wave after wave of body-mind-spirit upgrades. Through her lifetime of experiences and the resonant practices given through this field of Love, the author provides a roadmap for you to navigate this revolutionary contact within. Should you choose to grow up and out of the old matrix, this book has plenty of inspiration, pragmatic guidance, and encouragement.
Author: Graham Hancock
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 1444734393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 585
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A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to be led to the top where her heart will be cut out... Pepillo, a Spanish orphan who serves a sadistic Dominican friar, is aboard the Spanish fleet as it sails towards Mexico... This is the epic story of the clash of two empires, two armies and two gods of war. Five hundred desperate adventurers are about to pit themselves against the most brutal armies of the ancient Americas, armies hundreds of thousands strong. This is a war of gods and men. Dark powers that work behind the scenes of history show their hand as the prophecy of the return of Quetzalcoatl is fulfilled with the arrival of Cortes. The Aztec ruler Moctezuma fights to maintain the demands of the war god Huitzilopochtli for human sacrifice. The Spanish Inquisition is planning an even greater blood-letting. Caught up in the headlong collision between two gods of war are Tozi, Pepillo and the beautiful Malinal whose hatred of Moctezuma runs so deep she will sell out her own land and people to destroy him.
Author: Betty Bernice Faust
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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This is the first ethnography to be written about a Campeche Maya community. It examines the surviving Maya traditional technologies and sacred cosmologies and discusses the potential for combining these with modern knowledge and technologies to form an efficient new system that will not only provide for ecologically responsible development but will also make possible the cultural survival of this threatened indigenous population.
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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684818450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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One of the most extraordinary works of the human imagination and the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life was first made accessible to the public 10 years ago. This new edition retains the quality of the original translation, has been enriched, and includes 20 new illustrations, maps, drawings, and photos.
