The Cult of Xochipilli
Author(s): Georganne Deen; John Pohl
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "The Flower World: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Xochipilli, the Flower Prince, was widely revered through various manifestations as the patron god of the noble classes throughout southern Mexico. As such he was credited with patronage over palaces, royal marriages, feasts, wealth finance, and belief in an exclusive elite afterlife and ancestor cults for confederations of Eastern Nahuas, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs together with those they dominated throughout southern Mexico
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The Cult of Xochipilli. Georganne Deen, John Pohl. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 450457)
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Keywords
General
Ethnohistory/History
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Highland Mesoamerica: Postclassic
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Social and Political Organization: States and Empires
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Southern
Spatial Coverage
min long: -94.471; min lat: 13.005 ; max long: -87.748; max lat: 17.749 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22940