Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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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). |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Lacandon Indians -- Religion.
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Lacandon Indians -- Religion. |
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Lacandon Indians. |
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Lacandon Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Lacandon Indians -- Rites and ceremonies. |
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Lacandon mythology.
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Lacandon mythology. |
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Incense burners and containers -- Mexico -- Religious aspects.
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Incense burners and containers. |
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Mexico. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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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 |
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1607817330 electronic book |
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9781607817321 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1607817322 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781607817321 |
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