Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica : Pre-Columbian, Colonial and Contemporary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780199967759 | 019996775X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/5/2013
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Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica is the first ever study to explore the symbolic elements surrounding lightning in Pre-Columbian religious ideologies.
Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus and Jupiter in the Greco/Roman tradition, and Thor in Norse myth. Similarly, lightning vener... MORE
Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus and Jupiter in the Greco/Roman tradition, and Thor in Norse myth. Similarly, lightning vener... MORE
Preface
I Introduction
The Nature of Lightning
II Andean South America
Lightning in the Ancient World
Inca Cosmogony and Ethical Order: Lightning, Creations, and Chaos
Language and Lightning in the Andes
Lightning in the Context of Pre-Hispanic Andean Religion
Lightning Bolts, Sons of Lightning, and Immaculate Conceptions
Shells of Lightning: Fertility, Rebirth, and Death
Catequilla: Lightning ... MORE
John E. Staller is an independent archaeologist and author or editor of six books, most recently Pre-Columbian Foodways.
Brian Stross is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin.
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