Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate

by Elizabeth Hill Boone

In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292712634
• ISBN13: 9780292712638
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 3.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.7" x 11.1"