The Paris Codex: Handbook for a Maya Priest

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Author: Love, Bruce (1945- ) Year: 1994 Publisher: University of Texas Press Place: Austin Description: xviii+124 with illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography and index. Folio (9 1/4" x 8 3/4") bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by George E Stuart. First edition. The Maya civilization left many records carved in the stones of its cities, but only four hand-painted books, or codices, are know to have survived from the pre-Columbian era. The Paris Codex is one of these (the others are the Dresden, Madrid, and Grolier codices), and this groundbreaking study is the first comprehensive treatment of this codex since 1910. The Paris Codex consists of twenty-two screen-folded pages of hieroglyphs, painted figures and calendrical calculations, which are reproduced in this volume. One section covers the calendrical sycles of katuns, tuns and uinals , which Maya preiests used to read history and predict the future. Other sections cover weather almanacs; the influence of God C, also known as k'u ; the four year-bearers with their thirteen numbers; the Maya spirit entities, including sky gods and earth or death gods; and the Maya constellations. Bruce Love takes an ethnographic approach to the codex, analyzing its use by Maya priests as a handbook of divination, prophecy and history. He explores the unique features that distinguish this from the other three codices - the inclusion of historical material in the katun pages and the description of

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