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Author Boremanse, Didier, 1948- author.

Title Ruins, caves, gods, and incense burners : Northern Lacandon Maya myths and rituals / Didier Boremanse.

Publication Info. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Origin myths -- Shrines, censers, and deities -- Offerings of the first fruits of the crops -- Sin, expiation, divination, and propitiation -- The balche' ceremonies -- A Naabilil balche' ceremony performed at a boy's Initiation -- The renewal of the incense burners -- Eschatology and funerary rites -- Northern Lacandon religion in a changing world -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix A: Collections of censers of nineteen men -- Appendix B: Notes on Southern Lacandon Maya religion -- Appendix C: Origin myths (in Lacandon Maya).
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Subject Lacandon Indians -- Religion.
Lacandon Indians -- Religion.
Lacandon Indians.
Lacandon Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Lacandon Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Lacandon mythology.
Lacandon mythology.
Incense burners and containers -- Mexico -- Religious aspects.
Incense burners and containers.
Mexico.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Boremanse, Didier, 1948- Ruins, caves, gods, and incense burners. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2019] 9781607817321 (DLC) 2019018164
ISBN 9781607817338 electronic book
1607817330 electronic book
9781607817321 hardcover alkaline paper
1607817322 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781607817321