The Role of Venus in the Cosmologies of Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Southeast

Part of the Cosmology in the New World project

Author(s): Polly Schaafsma; Ed Krupp; George Lankford; Mike Mathiowetz; Susan Milbrath

Year: 2010

Summary

This paper describes differing but related views of the meanings of Venus in Central Mexico, West Mexico, the U.S. Southwest, and the Eastern Woodlands.

Cite this Record

The Role of Venus in the Cosmologies of Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Southeast. Polly Schaafsma, Ed Krupp, George Lankford, Mike Mathiowetz, Susan Milbrath. 2010 ( tDAR id: 4793) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8K936MK

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Aztec • Maya

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
arrows • Birdman • calendar • Camaxtli • codex • cold • Cosmogram type • death • Ehecatl • Evening Star • fertility • Grandson • Huitzilopochtli • Ideology • Jupiter • kachinas • lightning • Maize • Mars • Mercury • Morning Star • Panquetzaliztli • Quetzalcoatl • rain • reciprocity • Red Horn • renewal • sacrifice • scalps • Sirius • Sotugnangu • Star Boy • sun • Taurids • Tezcatlipoca • Tlacaxipchualiztli • Tlahuizcalpanlecuhti • Venus • Warfare • War Twins • Xipe totec • Xiuhtecuhtli • Xochipilli • Xolotl Show More

Geographic Keywords
Central Mexico • Eastern North America • Eastern Woodlands • US Plains • US Southwest • West Mexico

Temporal Keywords
Postclassic

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