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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 neighboring peopl… More >>
Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate
Tags: almanacs, books of fate, cycles of time, diviners, harvest crops, marriage partners, mexican books, newborns, priests, sixteenth century
#1 by friendlyintexas on July 2, 2010 - 1:22 am
I have read many books on this subject and I have found many authors tell only part of the story or that they fail to grasp the whole. This book is revealing in that they approach with many of the calendric systems from different Mesoamerican cultures. I believe this system holds great philosophical, intuitive and predictave qualities that are reflected in other cultures such as the I Ching. The calendric systems of Mesoamerica were part of a great system of learning and understanding that drew upon centuries of clinical observation of nature and set into the calendars a grand appreciation and extractive social systems such as dietary regimen, horoscope, psychology and divinitory extrapolations from the calendars. This is only partially exposed in this book but there are others that work well in conjunction such as the Aztec way of healthy eating which is the dietary regimen of the Aztecs in combination with their calendric systems.
Rating: 5 / 5