Lives of the Gods

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Divinity in Maya Art

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Lives of the Gods delves into the intricate Maya pantheon through exquisite Classic period art forms. This book reveals how the ancient Maya embodied their gods in carvings, ceramics, and metalwork, creating a rich cosmology comparable to other major ancient religions. Themes include the interplay of divine lives with nature and cosmological cycles, the symbolism of maize in life and rebirth, and the ongoing influence of these beliefs from royal courts to modern communities.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in Mesoamerican art, ancient religions, and cultural history, as well as scholars and students of archaeology and anthropology.

This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic period

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This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic period.

Lives of the Gods explores how ancient Maya peoples gave bodily form to the divine and explains the cosmological underpinnings of some of the greatest creative achievements of Maya civilization.

Focusing on the Classic period (250–900 CE), the publication reveals how artists and scribes used diverse media—from the monumental to the miniature—to construct an aesthetic and a rhetoric of a powerful universe, as rich and complex as the more familiar Greco-Roman, Hindu-Buddhist, and Egyptian pantheons.

In thematic chapters, the authors examine the mythical contents of Maya art, the relationship of divine lives with the landscape, the centrality of cycles associated with day and night, and the importance of maize as the ideal metaphor for the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

Other chapters discuss the divine in the daily lives of Maya kings and queens, the Maya’s close and personal dealings with protective patron deities, and the transmission of their traditions and worldview throughout the colonial period and into contemporary Maya communities.

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Shortlisted for the 2024 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, sponsored by CAA.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781588397317

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Illustration: 190 color illus.

Contributors:

Edited by Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
Edited by Joanne Pillsbury
Contributions by Stephen D. Houston
Edited by James A. Doyle
Contributions by Iyaxel Cojti Ren
Contributions by Caitlin C. Earley
Contributions by Daniel Salazar Lama

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 244

Collections

American & Canadian History Arts & Culture Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Joanne Pillsbury is Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos is associate professor of anthropology at Yale University and curator at the Yale Peabody Museum. James A. Doyle is associate research professor and director of the Matson Museum of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, State College.