TO BE LIKE GODS: DANCE IN ANCIENT MAYA CIVILIZATION
by Matthew G. Looper
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, 2009
$40.20 with website order discount
Description from the UT Press catalog:
The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for [...]
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New Book: To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization
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Orienting Bonampak
Posted in Bonampak on April 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Over the course of several visits to Bonampak, Chiapas, I’ve been intrigued by the unusual design of the site, and the way its buildings and plaza clearly “face” out toward the range of hills to the northeast. A great many Maya buildings exhibit architectural orientations of one sort or another, but few if any whole [...]
A Sun God Image from Dos Pilas, Guatemala
Posted in Dos Pilas, Uncategorized on April 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
In 1990, my friend Dr. Oswaldo Chichilla Mazariegos oversaw exploratory excavations at a small elite architectural compound at Dos Pilas known as Group N5-6 (Chinchilla Mazariegos 1990). In the course of his excavations he discovered several beautifully carved blocks in the interior chamber of Structure N5-21, the largest of the buildings in the group. These [...]
