About this deck
Mesoamerican mythologies — the religious cosmologies of the peoples between central Mexico and Honduras — are among the most fully developed pre-Columbian intellectual traditions in the Americas. They produced calendars precise to seconds, astronomy that predicted Venus cycles, and a literary tradition we are still reading. Key sections include: Meso america.; Opening Cosmologies of corn and blood.; Chapter I Olmec foundations.; Chapter II The classical city.; Chapter III The Classic period.; Chapter IV The K'iche' creation epic.; Chapter V Mexica origins.; Chapter VI Many gods, ordered.; Chapter VII Smoking mirror.; Chapter VIII The feathered serpent..