Название: Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana
Автор: Alan R. Sandstrom, Pamela Effrein Sandstrom
Издательство: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646423291
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 478
Размер: 67,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico. Punctuated with elaborate ritual offerings dedicated to the forces responsible for rain, seeds, crop fertility, and the well-being of all people, these pilgrimages are the highest and most elaborate form of Nahua devotion and reveal a sophisticated religious philosophy that places human beings in intimate contact with what Westerners call the forces of nature.