This text assembles the analyses of key issues and turning points into a history of the systemic collapse.
... Mayahuel, the goddess of maguey (agave plant), and convinced her to descend ... myth of Huitzi- lopochtli is uniquely Aztec. Huitzilopochtli is there- fore ... myth. The pyramid's south side represented Coatepec, the Serpent Mountain, and ...
... Mayahuel 105–106, 129, 138, 140, 167 Mead 13, 15–17, 20–21, 23, 31–32, 47, 64, 67, 80, 88, 96, 106–107,116, 121– 122, 127, 149, 151,163, 169–170, 172 Meadb 108 Meadhbh 108 Meave 108 Mecone 52 Medb 108–109 Medba 109 Mecone 52 Meng Po 109 ...
Discusses the religious beliefs and legends of the Mexican and Central American Indians in pre-Hispanic times.
... Mayahuel found that it had an intoxicating effect on her, as it had on the mouse. The gods were so pleased at Mayahuel's discovery that they made her a goddess. Another myth tells how love and the maguey plant were brought to humankind ...
"Fascinated by the history and cultures of three highly developed ancient societies--the Mayans, followed by the Aztecs in Mesoamerica and the Incas farther south--Ferguson examines their artifacts and those of the Spanish conquistadors, in ...
"Read about the creation of people according to the Popol Vuh, the origin of the sun, moon, world, music, and four other important myths"--Provided by publisher
... myths associated with androgyny. As I will later describe, Jesusa herself ... Mayahuel, the Aztec female deity associated with pulque and the agave plant ... myth of androgyny can be understood as a mythic aspiration of oneness that ...
... myth in the Legend of the Suns section of the sixteenth-century Codex ... Mayahuel, the goddess of maguey, are hiding from the tzitzimime (the ... Mayahuel to shreds. When Quetzalcoatl buries her remains, the first maguey plant sprouts ...
... Myth " ( Mixtec , 149 ) is limited to the origin of the sun . World ... Myth " ( 149 ) . The origin of corn is given in " The Birth of All of Heaven and Earth ... Mayahuel ” ( Aztec , 212 ) ; and of the settlement called Mexico City today ...