Drawing upon iconographic material, chronicles written in both Spanish and the native Nahuatl, and the rich contributions of ethnography, Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God -- like the mirror of Tezcatlipoca in which the fates of mortals were reflected -- reveals an important but obscured portion of the cosmology of pre-Columbian Mexico.
- ISBN13 9780870817458
- Publish Date 5 January 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of Colorado
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 381
- Language English