Download or read book Temple of the Two Jaguars written by Edward D. Curry and published by edward curry. This book was released on 2008-02-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure, history, and romance converge in supernatural Mayan thriller. Forewarned by violent, troubling dreams, protagonist Ryan Keshaw sets out on a Smithsonian-Mexican expedition in search of the elusive Maya Rosetta Stone.
Download or read book Middleworld written by Jon Voelkel and published by Darby Creek. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales.
Download or read book The Adventurers written by Jimmy D. McCombs and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when six naïve, immature, unprepared college students go to a costume photo shop at different times to have their picture taken? They get transported to an alternate world where they then realize they should have listened much closer to the couple taking their pictures. They find themselves thrown together in life-or-death situations where they either pull together or perish. It takes days before they finally figure out that what they had chosen to wear is what they would have to survive on their trip through the magical Kingdom of Felgar. There are kings and queens of several kingdoms within this world of islands. Along the way, they will meet ladies and bandits, dragons and fairies, wizards, evil sorcerers, pirates, and creatures never seen before. Trees and plants that are alive and beings so horrible that they can frighten your soul from within you! This place is a real hell on earth, and they had to be prepared to deal with all the situations that came about. What they put on, held on to, and carried was all they had to survive in this strange and very deadly, beautiful, mysterious medieval world. What they didn’t have or needed they could buy, trade, or even kill for. The group finally reaches a point they understand they must complete the mission given to them to topple the Dark Lizard Priest and free the Kingdom of Felgar from his grasp before they are able to return home to their own world.
Download or read book Mexico written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precolumbian art -- Viceregal art -- Nineteenth century art -- Twentieth century art.
Download or read book Two Faces of the Jaguar written by George Dismukes and published by Melange Books, LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many secrets are hidden within the darkness of the jungle. Behold this one about a man, a woman, a black jaguar, and an ancient Mayan legend. When Andrea Granger was assigned to go to Honduras, ‘get inside and gather evidence’ against the DEA’s main suspect, she was determined to accomplish her mission with the same efficiency as in her previous assignments. But that was before she met her culprit, Brandon Shaw. He melted her heart and her resolve, and so did Naja, Brandon’s 300 pound black jaguar and closest companion. She quickly discovered there was much more to Brandon Shaw than met the eye, and just as quickly, she found her mission in jeopardy. Instead of arresting him, she became determined to rescue the flawed man of the jungle. But could she successfully extricate him from the web he had tangled himself in? As if that weren’t enough, she found that Brandon Shaw was somehow connected to a thousand year old Mayan legend which threatened to destroy everything. Unprepared, she found herself having to deal with an ancient spirit determined to kill her.
Download or read book Descent of the Jaguar written by Amilyn Geist and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is falling. Not only is his grip slipping from the crumbling cliff side, but he is losing his grasp on reality. Agent Nathanial Brice's thoughts drift to his father's murder. His eyes harden with repulsion. No ancient order will keep him from revenge. Fortunately, fate has provided Brice a guide, and she is damn beautiful. Brought together through the mind game of a lunatic killer, two strangers must battle the elements to prevent the Roshaniya from overthrowing the existing world order. The relationship between each other grows from detest to something more as they are mugged, held captive underground, hang precariously from a mountain, and dodge booby traps. Undeterred, they search for clues that will lead to a long forgotten Mayan tomb, now utilized as a hideout for the Roshaniya. They descend deep into the underworld until coming face to face with their destiny. They must eliminate the threat before he disposes of them and changes the known world forever. of them and changes the known world forever.
Download or read book Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca written by Robert Lloyd Williams and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a group, the Mixtec codices contain the longest detailed histories and royal genealogies known for any indigenous people in the western hemisphere. The Codex Zouche-Nuttall offers a unique window into how the Mixtecs themselves viewed their social and political cosmos without the bias of western European interpretation. At the same time, however, the complex calendrical information recorded in the Zouche-Nuttall has made it resistant to historical, chronological analysis, thereby rendering its narrative obscure. In this pathfinding work, Robert Lloyd Williams presents a methodology for reading the Codex Zouche-Nuttall that unlocks its essentially linear historical chronology. Recognizing that the codex is a combination of history in the European sense and the timelessness of myth in the Native American sense, he brings to vivid life the history of Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan (AD 935–1027), a ruler with the attributes of both man and deity, as well as other heroic Oaxacan figures. Williams also provides context for the history of Lord Eight Wind through essays dealing with Mixtec ceremonial rites and social structure, drawn from information in five surviving Mixtec codices.
Download or read book The States of Mexico written by Peter Standish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico comprises 32 diverse states, and this reference is the first to succinctly profile each. Each chapter devoted to one of the states provides a contemporary snapshot of the most important information to know about the state, with essay sections on its characteristics, flora and fauna, cultural groups and languages, history, economy, social customs, arts, noteworthy places, and cuisine with representative recipes. Familiar and noteworthy names in Mexican culture are highlighted in the applicable sections. The format is perfect for students studying Spanish and travelers and general readers wanting a different angle from that provided in guidebooks and more authoritativeness than they can offer. Readers learn about the pulsing metropolis of Mexico City to the jungle isolation found in the Yucatan Peninsula. Considering the huge political, social, and economic focus on Mexico and the number of Mexican immigrants in the United Status today, Americans need to know more about Mexico and the homeland of these new immigrants. Make this one of the sources you recommend to your patrons to get a quick yet substantial feel for the states and their people. A map and photo accompany each chapter, and the volume contains a chronology, glossary, and selected bibliography.
Download or read book A Study of Maya Art Its Subject Matter and Historical Development written by Herbert Joseph Spinden and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmark classic interprets Maya symbolism, estimates styles, covers ceramics, architecture, murals, stone carvings as art forms. Over 750 illustrations.
Download or read book Jaguar and Five Rabbit written by Norris Ray Peery and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within these pages lives a story of love, of friendships, and of families, which are imbedded within a place and time, where the most diametrically opposite of human values existed and survived side-by-side, where heaven and hell daily rubbed their social elbows, and each of their elements were ever threatening the survival of their counterpart. Here is a story of people caught between the gears and wheels of their god's invisible machinery that daily drives their universe. Here is portrayed both the physical and psychological landscape of a time whose structures, writings, and beliefs have now been systematically destroyed by a new foreign master and a new foreign religion, which has a so-called "Modern Strategy" about blood sacrifice and intellectual domination. Here is the story of lovers, whose powerful desire to be forever together, is the magic that guides them through an ever-fluxing nightmare that is their reality. The story opens in the capitol city of the Aztec Empire during the night of November the 8th in the year 1516 CE.
Download or read book A Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins written by C. Bruce Hunter and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1986-05-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated descriptions, explanations, and appraisals of accessible Mayan ceremonial centers in Guatemala, Mexico, and Honduras, setting each of the twenty-four sites in its historical, cultural, and architectural context
Download or read book Mesoamerica After the Decline of Teotihuacan A D 700 900 written by Richard A. Diehl and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1989 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Maya Art Its Subject Matter and Historical Development written by Herbert Joseph Spinden and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of Ancient America written by George Kubler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a survey of the paintings and architecture of the Mexican, Mayan, and Andean peoples
Download or read book The Gods Machines written by Wun Chok Bong and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author’s decipherment of prehistoric carvings and the application of mathematical measurements, The Gods’ Machines shows how “unknown” phenomena from Angkor Wat to Stonehenge to crop circles are actually powerhouses built by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization for tapping electromagnetic energy. The book traces the development of that civilization on Earth over 5,000 years, revealing how all these structures are aligned according to a universal formula: an angle of 135 degrees at which Earth’s energy has been tapped by the alien creators of these monuments. These fascinating theories not only explain our distant past, but also open the door to a future of power technology and space travel. Megalithic sites such as Newgrange and Stonehenge are constructed with quartz- and iron-rich stones with electrical conduction properties — minerals also found atop Aztec temple and inside crop circles. These stones, according to the author, served as dry cell batteries when heated and stressed, and supplied energy to the builders’ traveling vehicles. Most interestingly, the author has tested his theory on today’s crop circles. The Gods’ Machines is certain to stimulate debate among readers interested in alternative history, ancient civilization, and extraterrestrial intelligence.
Download or read book 2012 Maya End Date written by Edward Dayne Curry and published by edward curry. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating and Mystical history of the future of the amazing Maya, regarding the so-called Maya End Date of December 21, 2012. Many believe this date heralds the end of humanity. Maybe, maybe not. Ideas, suspense and love abound in this exotic Maya setting. Discover how Precession and 2012 may affect you in ways you would never expect and increase your zest for life.
