La imagen de Cocijo y el lenguaje visual antiguo mexicano / Octavio Quesada García.

Author
Quesada García, Octavio [Browse]
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Book
Language
Spanish
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Primera edición.
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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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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9786070287855
    • 6070287851
    LCCN
    2017386537
    OCLC
    982656473
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