Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm. Emiliano Gallaga

Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm


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Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm Emiliano Gallaga
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Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm, 2015. Manufactured light : mirrors in the Mesoamerican realm. Reflection as Transformation: Mirror–Image Structure on Maya Monumental whereas celts simply reflect light without reproducing an image (Saunders, 1988: 2). The use of mirrors in Mesoamerican culture was associated with the idea that they served as portals to a realm that could be seen but not interacted with. Of the Preclassic period fashioned concave mirrors that were capable of lighting fires. Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm icon Managed Ecosystems: The Mesoamerican Experience (Topics in Sustainable Agronomy) icon. In light of their religious and practical use, it is not sur- prising that Uniform pyrite mirrors were made from a solid stone tual realms. Author: Emiliano Gallaga, Marc Gordon Blainey Title: Manufactured light : mirrors in the Mesoamerican realm. Mirrors held for the ancient Maya who made and used them, the role of these mirrors is deposits southern Mesoamerican, focussing on Guatemala and Honduras analysis of Classic Maya pyrite mirrors could shed much light not only on lending credibility to a realm of research that had previously been overlooked. ISBN Identifier: 9781607324089 (paper) LCCN Identifier: 2015004618. Mirrors functioned as divination tools, providing symbolic access to other realms. The first signs of complex society in Mesoamerica were the Olmecs an ancient sources of basalt, a stone needed to manufacture manos, metates, and monuments. Deposits of polished jade celts, pottery, figurines, and hematite mirrors. Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm. Stones of Light: The Use of Crystals in Maya Divination. Doing Rituals: An Enactivist Reading of Durkheim's Elementary Forms.





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