# Mesoamerican

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Category: Mythology
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:54.397Z
Tags: mythology, mesoamerican

## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

1. Meso america.
2. Opening Cosmologies of corn and blood.
3. Chapter I Olmec foundations.
4. Chapter II The classical city.
5. Chapter III The Classic period.
6. Chapter IV The K'iche' creation epic.
7. Chapter V Mexica origins.
8. Chapter VI Many gods, ordered.
9. Chapter VII Smoking mirror.
10. Chapter VIII The feathered serpent.
11. Chapter IX The catastrophe.
12. Chapter X The few survivors.
13. Chapter XI The Long Count.
14. Chapter XII Cosmic sport.
15. Chapter XIII The contested element.
16. Chapter XIV World Tree and Xibalba.
17. Chapter XV The other traditions.
18. Chapter XVI The traditions today.
19. Chapter XVII The 20th-century rediscovery.
20. Chapter XVIII Mexican identity.
21. Chapter XIX The integrating concepts.
22. Chapter XX Old World parallels.
23. Chapter XXI What we still don't know.
24. Chapter XXII How to learn more.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to learn it.
28. Chapter XXVI Why it matters.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. The end of the deck.

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