Reading Maize: a narrative and psychological approach to the study of divination in Mesoamerica
The casting of maize seeds is a tool used by contemporary daykeepers in the Ayöök (Mixe) area of Oaxaca, Mexico, which along with the prognostications and prescriptions of the 260-day calendar, helps to cure illnesses and afflictions. This divinatory practice was also employed by precolonial tonalp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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CEEOL
[2016]
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Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2016, Volume: 15, Issue: 43, Pages: 102-124 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Middle America
/ Corn
/ Divination
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBR Latin America |
| Further subjects: | B
divinatory narratives
B divinatory signs B Maize divination B Borgia Group B Codices B Mixe B Mesoamerica |
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