The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan

Part of the Cosmology in the New World project

Author(s): George Cowgill

Year: 2007

Summary

In this paper, George Cowgill focuses on how Mesoamericans used worldviews and ideologies in sociopolitical ways. More specifically, Cowgill argues that specific sociopolitical ideologies arise when there is a shared worldview.

Cite this Record

The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan. George Cowgill. 2007 ( tDAR id: 4791) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8FJ2DV1

Keywords

Culture
Aztec • Maya • Olmec

Site Name
Copan • Cuicuilco • Kaminaljuyu • Los Hercones • Matacapan • Piedra Labrada • Teotihuacan • Tetimpa • Tikal • Yaxha

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
Acumulco • Avenue of the Dead • calendar • Colossus of Coatlinchan • deities • East Avenue • feathered serpent • fertility • flower • Great Goddess • Ideology • jaguars • Jar • lightning serpent • Maize • mountain • nose pendant • Politics • Popocatepetl • Power • Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent • Pyramid of the Moon • Pyramid of the Sun • Rain God • rattlesnake • scroll motifs • stone fist • Storm God • sun god • Sun Palace • symbolism • Techinantitla • Tepantitla • Tlaloc • Torch • Venus • Warfare • West Plaza • worldview Show More

Geographic Keywords
Basin of Mexico • Central Mexico • Chiapas • Gulf Coast • Pacific coast of Chiapas • Pacific coast of Guatemala • Puebla • Soconusco region • Southern Gulf Lowlands • Southern Maya Lowlands • Teotihuacan Valley • Tuxcala

Temporal Keywords
Classic • Early Formative • Late Preclassic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -99.878; min lat: 19.665 ; max long: -99.838; max lat: 19.705 ;

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