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050 00 $aF1219.76.R45$bO55 2003
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100 1 $aOlivier, Guilhem,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98079383
240 10 $aMoqueries et métamorphoses d'un dieu aztèque.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003104862
245 10 $aMockeries and metamorphoses of an Aztec god :$bTezcatlipoca, "lord of the smoking mirror" /$cby Guilhem Olivier ; translated by Michel Besson.
260 $aBoulder :$bUniversity Press of Colorado,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axiii, 403 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aMesoamerican worlds
500 $aTranslation of: Moqueries et métamorphoses d'un dieu aztèque.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 357-386) and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rDavid Carrasco -- $g1.$tThe Names of Tezcatlipoca -- $g2.$tThe Representations of Tezcatlipoca -- $g3.$tThe Origins of Tezcatlipoca: Between the Jaguar and Obsidian -- $g4.$tTezcatlipoca and the Fall of Tollan -- $g5.$tThe Cult of Tezcatlipoca: His Temples and Priests -- $g6.$tThe Cult of Tezcatlipoca: The Feast of Toxcatl -- $g7.$tThe Torn Foot and the Smoking Mirror: Two Symbols of Tezcatlipoca.
520 1 $a"Now available for the first time in English, Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon. An enigmatic and melodramatic figure, "the Lord of the Smoking Mirror" was both drunken seducer and mutilated transgressor and, although he severely punished those who violated pre-Columbian moral codes, he also received mortal confessions. A patron deity to kings and warriors as well as a protector of slaves, Tezcatlipoca often clashed in epic confrontation with his "enemy brother" Quetzalcoatl, the famed "Feathered Serpent." Yet these powers of Mesoamerican mythology collaborated to create the world, and their common attributes hint toward a dual character." "In a sophisticated and systematic tour through the sources and problems related to Tezcatlipoca's protein powers and shifting meanings, Olivier guides the reader skillfully through the symbolic names of this great god, from his representation on skins and stones to his relationship to ritual knives and other related deities. Drawing upon iconographic material, chronicles written in both Spanish and the native Nahuatl, and the rich contributions of ethnography, Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God - like the mirror of Tezcatlipoca in which the fates of mortals were reflected - reveals an important but obscured portion of the cosmology of pre-Columbian Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aTezcatlipoca$c(Aztec deity)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016085487
650 0 $aAztecs$xReligion.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85010684
650 0 $aAztec mythology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94000328
830 0 $aMesoamerican worlds.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95077141
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003010955.html
852 00 $bglx$hF1219.76.R45$iO55 2003