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From the Mouth of the Dark Cave: Commemorative Sculpture of the Late Classic Maya
by Bassie-Sweet, Karen (1952- )
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0806123230
- ISBN 13
- 9780806123233
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xii+287 pages with maps, tables, figures, illustrations, appendices and index . Small quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/4") bound in original publisher' s black cloth with white and blue lettering to spine. First edition.
The southern lowlands of the Maya region are honeycombed with caves formed by the erosive action of underground rivers. These caves, with their dramatic drip water formations, winding tunnels, and high caverns, played a major role in the ideology and world view of the Classic Maya. Considered to be the home of ancestors and of deities associated with the sun, moon, rain, wind and corn, caves were a portal between the tangible human world and the invisible world of the gods. It was at this portal that the Maya performed their most sacred rituals. Bassie-Sweet argues that it is these cave rituals that are most often illustrated on Late Classic Maya sculpture.
Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.
The southern lowlands of the Maya region are honeycombed with caves formed by the erosive action of underground rivers. These caves, with their dramatic drip water formations, winding tunnels, and high caverns, played a major role in the ideology and world view of the Classic Maya. Considered to be the home of ancestors and of deities associated with the sun, moon, rain, wind and corn, caves were a portal between the tangible human world and the invisible world of the gods. It was at this portal that the Maya performed their most sacred rituals. Bassie-Sweet argues that it is these cave rituals that are most often illustrated on Late Classic Maya sculpture.
Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS003369
- Title
- From the Mouth of the Dark Cave: Commemorative Sculpture of the Late Classic Maya
- Author
- Bassie-Sweet, Karen (1952- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0806123230
- ISBN 13
- 9780806123233
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- xii+287 pages with maps, tables, figures, illustrations, appendices and index .
- Size
- Small quarto
- Keywords
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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