The ancient spirituality of the modern Maya /
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| Language: | English |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- All god's children : the coming of Christianity
- Adoring the world : the Mayan vision of god
- Sacred time : the Mayan calendar
- Presents for the world : Mayan ceremonies
- Sacred places : shrines and altars
- You need the driver : the Mayan priesthood
- Putting a question : divination
- The owners of sickness : illness and curing
- Here is our mother : corn and the Maya
- Enchanted hills : spirits of the earth
- Stones of the world : ancient relics
- A different person, a different god : Maximin and the saints
- Sometimes the dream is true : revelations in dreams
- They give signs : animal portents
- "We say there's no heaven and there's no hell" : death and after
- Coming out of the shadows : Mayan spirituality in the modern world.