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Cosmology in the New World
The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan (2007)
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This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.
The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan (2007)
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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.