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This book explores a seminal topic concerning the Mesoamerican past: the religious festivals that took place during the eighteen periods of twenty days, or veintenas, into which the solar year was divided. Pre-Columbian societies celebrated these festivals through complex rituals, involving the priests and gods themselves, embodied in diverse beings and artifacts. Specific sectors of society also participated in the festivals, while city inhabitants usually attended public ceremonies. As a consequence, this ritual cycle played a significant role in Mesoamerican religious life; at the same time, it informs us about social relations in pre-Columbian societies. Both religious and social aspects of the solar cycle festivals are tackled in the twelve contributions in this book, which aims to address the entire veintena sequence and as much of the territory and history of Mesoamerica as possible. Specifically, the book revisits long-standing discussions of the solar cycle festivals, but also explores these religious practices in original ways, in particular through investigating understudied rituals and offering new interpretations of rites that have previously been extensively analyzed. Other chapters consider the entire veintena sequence through the prism of specific topics, providing multiple though often complementary analyses. As a consequence, this book will attract the attention of scholars and graduate students with interests in Mesoamerica and early Latin America, as well as ethnohistory, cultural history, history of religions, art history, archaeology and anthropology.
Contents
Elena Mazzetto and Élodie Dupey García : Introduction - Rites and Myths in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica - Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos: Tezcatlipoca and the Maya Gods of Abundance: The Feast of Toxcatl and the Question of Homologies in Mesoamerican Religion - Guilhem Olivier: The Re-enactment of the Birth of the Gods in Mexica Veintena Celebrations: Some Observations - Élodie Dupey García: Quetzalcoatl in Nahua Myths and Rituals: Discreet or Omnipresent Protagonist? - Johannes Neurath: Beyond Nature and Mythology: Relational Complexity in Contemporary and Ancient Mesoamerican Rituals - Ritual Actors and Activities in the Veintena Festivals - Gabrielle Vail: Haab' Festivals among the Postclassic Maya: Evidence from Ethnohistoric Sources and the Madrid Codex - Elena Mazzetto: Maize and Flaying in Aztec Rituals - John F.Schwaller: The Toxcatl and Panquetzaliztli Figurines - Sylvie Peperstraete: Myths, Rites, and the Agricultural Cycle: The Huixtotin Priests and the Veintenas - Pre-Columbian Categories, Colonial Interpretations - Mirjana Danilović: Dance and Sacrificial Rituals in the Veintena Ceremonies - Andrea B.Rodríguez Figueroa, Mario Cortina Borja, and Leopoldo Valiñas Coalla: Ritual and Religious Practices Described in the Florentine Codex: Ritual Unit as a Structural Concept - Sergio Botta: An Augustinian Political Theology in New Spain: Towards a Franciscan Interpretation of the Veintenas - Rossend Rovira-Morgado: Bright Plumages, Teary Children, and Blessed Rains: Possible Reminiscences of Atlcahualo during the Indigenous Ceremonial Pomp of Saint Francis in Post-Conquest Mexico City - Danièle Dehouve: Epilogue - Notes on Contributors - Index.
