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Paperback The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies Book

ISBN: 1477309861

ISBN13: 9781477309865

The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies

(Part of the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas Series)

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Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion--teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred...

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