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Chapter II
History and Cosmovision
European Origins for Native Americans
Where are they from (because they can’t be from America)? Egypt, Asia, Atlantis, Lost tribe of Israel,
Outerspace [Bering Strait]
Origin stories, Creation Myths are all indigenous
Plants and the Dead
Control of agriculture and Urbanism Imagination of Matter
From Olmec to contemporary people
Olmec (1500-300 BCE)-”Mother Civilization”
giant basalt heads of ancestors body was earth--dead rulers in contact with the
living interior architecturePyramid
temple and mountainBallgame
action of solar dramabuildings aligned with the rising sun at
equinox Religion a Orientation
Charles H. Long
”(Religion) . . . will mean orientation--orientation in the ultimate sense, that is, how one comes to terms with the ultimate significance of one's place in the world. . . . . The religion of any people is more than a structure of thought; it is experience, expression, motivations, intentions, behaviors, styles, and rhythms.” Significations (1986), vii.
Teotihuacan (200-700 CE)“City of the Gods”
Temple of the Sun 4 directions Street of the Dead
Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl
Place of origins for the Aztec
First Impirial city of Central Mexico
Reproducing the landscape
Me in another lifetime
Temple of the Moon
Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl
Tollan/Tula (900-1100 AD)
Reinvented Mesoamerican culture after the fall of Teotihuacan Priest/King Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl Tezcatlipoca--Trickster
Cortes was mistaken for Quetzalcoatl returning
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