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La imagen de Cocijo y el lenguaje visual antiguo mexicano / Octavio Quesada García.
Author
Quesada García, Octavio
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Format
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Language
Spanish
Εdition
Primera edición.
Published/Created
México, D.F. : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, 2016.
Description
463 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
F1219.3.C65 Q948 2016
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Subject(s)
Tlaloc (Aztec deity)
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Indigenous peoples of Mexico
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Religion
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Zapotec Indians
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Religion
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Cosmogony
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Indian art
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Mexico
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Mexico
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Antiquities
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Indigenous Studies
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Issuing body
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades
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Series
Colección Debate y reflexión ; 66.
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Colección Debate y reflexión ; 66
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Summary note
Iconographic study on the Pre-Columbian water/rain deity Cocijo (Zapoteco) also known as Tlaloc (Nahuatl) and Chaac (Maya). In 1986, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (1923-2013) formulated an iconographic and textual hypothesis about the Mexican ancient cosmogonic thought, which re-shaped our overview of what we now call Mesoamerica (Image of Tláloc, UNAM). Through rigorous research organized in two arguments, this author found Tlaloc represents, in fact, an ancient cosmogonic myth that attributed to human the detonating role of universal creation, and whose body was made arise the Earth and the sky, i.e., everything created. Taking as a basis the Cosmogonica hypothesis since 2006, Octavio Quesada has confirmed and extended his conclusions by demonstrating, first, the occurrence in the divine images of a group of abstract signs that, together with the previously studied naturalistic signs, he suggest, constitute a single system of visual communication. This hypothesis was subsequently confirmed in the Olmec culture and was shown to be active among the Maya to raise the image of Chaac. The present work describes a set of constituent relationships of its syntax, and an attempt to understand the way in which the meaning is integrated into these images. But the operating system in different cultures, and especially the reiteration of the same main plastic discourse, Tlaloc, indicate that all these cultures, different as they were in their origins, initial ethnicity and languages, would have used the same system of beliefs. "All of then - concludes the author - from the Olmecs to the Mexica would have formed a single great civilization, richly diverse, organically integrated, millennial, of universal aspirations fulfilled, soaring from the human supreme value."
Notes
"Figuras": pages 87-457.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-463) and index.
Language note
In Spanish.
Contents
Presentación
I. EL SISTEMA
Introducción
La muestra
II. LOS SUBSISTEMAS
Los signos naturalistas y sus principios combinatorios
Los signos abstractos y las familias de variantes
El signo Uno
El signo Dos y sus familias
El signo Tres y sus familias
La familia del signo Uno y la representación incompleta de signos
Los signos abstractos entre los olmecas
III LA ESTRUCTURA
Algunas relaciones entre dos o más signos abstractos
Repetición
Reiteración
Sobreposición
Yuxtaposición
Función múltiple
Los signos abstractos como principio expresivo de las imágenes divinas
Algunas relaciones entre signos abstractos y signos naturalistas
La imagen de Cocijo o la construcción integral del sentido
La divinidad
La imagen
El máxtlatl
El pendiente principal
El rostro
El tocado
IV. EL SISTEMA EN EL ANTIGUO MÉXICO
Lecturas iconográficas
En la sección de figuras se encuentran: Cultura olmeca
Cultura zapoteca
Cultura mixteca
Cultura maya
Culturas de la Costa Sur
Culturas de Cerro de las Mesas
Culturas de El Tajín y del Centro de Veracruz
Cultura teotihuacana
Culturas de Guerrero
Cultura de Xochicalco
Cultura huasteca
Culturas principalmente nahuas
Cultura mexica
Cultura Mimbres
V. CONCLUSIONES
Conclusiones
VI. FIGURAS
Inicio de figuras.
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ISBN
9786070287855
6070287851
LCCN
2017386537
OCLC
982656473
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