Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, "Lord of the Smoking Mirror"

by Guilhem Olivier

Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a masterful 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870819070
• ISBN13: 9780870819070
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 10.0"