The Phoenix of the Western World: Quetzalcoatl and the Sky Religion

Description

Author: Brundage, Burr Cartwright  (1912-1993

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Pub Date: 1982 (First edition)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Simulated calfskin boards.  Some foxing to top text block.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (No price indicated).  One approx. 1/4″ closed tear on upper front cover edge.  Smudging to flap edges.  Front flap has an approx. 1″ bend.   Wear to spine head and foot.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes:  The Aztecs had four separate but interwoven religions–the sky, fire, earth, and the cult of Tezcatlipoca.  The author retells and interprets all the known sky myths, including those about the creation of the sky and the beings who lived in the sky.  Quetzlcoatl was seen as the wind, the god of priests and human sacrifice, the god of warriors, the underworld, the evening star, and the Aztec ball game.  Seems like a lot to put on one guy.  More a religious history than anthropology.