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  2. Tying Headbands or Venus Appearing: New Translations of k'al, the Dresden Codex Venus Pages and Classic Period Royal 'Binding' Rituals

Tying Headbands or Venus Appearing: New Translations of k'al, the Dresden Codex Venus Pages and Classic Period Royal 'Binding' Rituals

Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos 2011 © BAR Publishing
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Epigraphers of the Mayan hieroglyphic writing system have demonstrated that a single verb root lies behind a substantial array of royal rituals. At the same time, astronomically oriented studies have found the same root associated with the events of celestial bodies. Perhaps the best known of the latter is the operative verb within the Dresden Codex Venus Pages. This book tackles ostensibly minor incongruities within current interpretations of the Venus Pages to reveal a trajectory that resolves the difference between astronomical and epigraphic treatments of the verb in question. In an attempt to ameliorate these inconsistencies, textual data external to the Dresden Codex, both temporally and geographically, are brought into consideration. The external data reveals an unexpected linguistic and thematic continuity, which further challenges current calendric interpretations of the Venus Pages. Rectifying the calendric inconsistency requires a substantial reinterpretation of the procedure for utilizing the Preface to the Venus Table; in so doing, a new solution to the long enigmatic interval of 9,100 days is proposed. This last move introduces a reconsideration of the Venus Table in its entirety, with a focus on k'al, the operative verb throughout the table, such that we gain access to a perspective of ritual time and space that appears to have been held throughout Mesoamerica. This essay appeals to calendrics, iconography, hieroglyphs, and architecture to suggest that k'al referred to a ritual 'enclosing'or 'loop-tracing' in space and time.
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  • BAR pre-2020
  • BAR International Series pre-2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407308036 (paperback)
  • 9781407337937 (ebook)
BAR Number
  • S2239
Subject
  • Art / Sculpture / Gems / Seals
  • Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
  • Central and South America and the Caribbean
  • Astroarchaeology
  • Epigraphy / Ancient and Medieval Texts / Papyri
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  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Abstract
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Reading Methods, The Fourth Doll
  • Chapter 2: External Appeal, The Third Doll
  • Chapter 3: K'al in Astronomy, The Second Doll
  • Chapter 4: K'al in Cosmology, The First Doll
  • Conclusion/ Completion, The Doll at the Center
  • Bibliography
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