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Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners Northern Lacandon Maya Myths and Rituals
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Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners [electronic resource] : Northern Lacandon Maya Myths and Rituals / Didier Boremanse.
ISBN
9781607817338
1607817330
9781607817321
1607817322
Publication
Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2019]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©[2019]
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 online resource.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Other formats
Print version: Boremanse, Didier, 1948- author. Ruins, caves, gods, and incense burners Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2019]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 21, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Origin myths
Shrines, censers, and deities
Offerings of the first fruits of the crops
Sin, expiation, divination, and propitiation
The balche' ceremonies
A Naabilil balche' ceremony performed at a boy's Initiation
The renewal of the incense burners
Eschatology and funerary rites
Northern Lacandon religion in a changing world
Concluding remarks
Appendix A: Collections of censers of nineteen men
Appendix B: Notes on Southern Lacandon Maya religion
Appendix C: Origin myths (in Lacandon Maya).
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