Gods of thunder how climate change, travel, and spirituality reshaped precolonial America
Introduction : in search of medieval America -- Temples of wind and rain -- Lost in ancient America -- Dark secrets of the crystal maiden -- Mesoamerican cults and cities -- Across the Chichimec Sea -- Ballcourts at snaketown -- A place beyond the horizon -- The other corn road -- Paddling north --...
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : in search of medieval America -- Temples of wind and rain -- Lost in ancient America -- Dark secrets of the crystal maiden -- Mesoamerican cults and cities -- Across the Chichimec Sea -- Ballcourts at snaketown -- A place beyond the horizon -- The other corn road -- Paddling north -- Smoking daggers -- First medicine -- Wind in the shell "The earth's climate warmed from the 9th through the 13th centuries CE. Named the Medieval Warm Period, it was a time of great historical change in precolonial North America, as evidenced through archaeology. While scholars have previously suggested the existence of long-distance ties between the civilizations of Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Mississippi valley, no one until now has argued that climate change and religion-not trade-were the reasons for these far-flung connections. Pauketat argues that a common supernatural being-a Wind-that-brings-rain or "Thunderer" deity-emerged because of climatic factors to drive the development of a series of interrelated religious movements across the continent. These movements were based around a common circular shrine or pyramid in or on which people worshipped the powers of the wind and rain-the essential life-giving forces of global climate"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xiii, 330 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24,3 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780197645109 978-0-19-764510-9 |