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The myth of Quetzalcoatl : religion, rulership, and history in the Nahua world / Alfredo López Austin ; translated by Russ Davidson with Guilhem Olivier.

by López Austin, Alfredo.

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University Press of Colorado, 2015.

Aztec mythology.

Aztecs -- History.

Quetzalcoatl (Aztec deity)

9781607323907 (pbk.)

xx, 229 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Translation of : Hombre-dios.

Translated from the Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index.

Reed -- The initial focus of foreign origin -- The skeptical focus -- The critical focus -- The end of a truncated history and its consequences -- Men and gods -- Space and time -- The nature of the man-god -- The life of the man-god -- The history of the man-god.

"The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin's 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y política en el mundo náhuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this is the first English translation of the work"--From publisher.

Davidson, Russ.

Olivier, Guilhelm.

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