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The Ritual Practice of Time: Philosophy and Sociopolitics of Mesoamerican Calendars (Early Americas: History and Culture)

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Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what’s categorised as “ritual practices of time.” This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of 4 calendars: the Long Rely calendar, the 260-day calendar, the 365-day calendar and the fifty two-years calendar. Development upon a comparative analytical model, the book contributes new theoretical insights about ritual practices and temporal philosophies. This comprehensive investigation analyses how ritual practices are represented and conceptualised in intellectual systems and societies. The temporal ritual practices are systematically analysed in the case of calendar organisation and structure, mathematics, cosmogony and chronometry, spatial-temporality (cosmology), wildlife, eschatology, sociology, politics, and ontology. It’s argued that the 260-day calendar has a specific symbolic importance in Mesoamerican temporal philosophies and practices.

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