Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.1: Teotl
1.2: Supporting Scholarship
1.3: The Cosmos as Teotl’s Artistic-Shamanic Self-Transformation
1.4: Some Implications of and Objections against Several Aspects of This Interpretation of Aztec Metaphysics
1.5: Conclusion
2.1: Pantheism
2.2: The Sacred
2.3: Neltiliztli, Self-Presentation, and Nonhierarchical Well-Ordering
2.4: Ixiptla and Teixiptla
2.5: Animism
2.6: Objections and Replies
2.7: Conclusion
3.1: Agonistic Inamic Unity
3.2: Agonistic Inamic Unity as A Pattern in the Weaving of the Cosmos
3.3: Examining Agonistic Inamic Unity
3.4: Artistic Presentations of Agonistic Inamic Unity
3.5: Abstract Inamic Pa irs
3.6: Balance and Imbalance, and Center and Periphery Are Not Inamic Pairs
3.7: Ometeotl
3.8: Conclusion
4: Teotl as Olin
4.1: Olin
4.2: Linguistic Evidence
4.3: Literary Evidence
4.4: Graphic Evidence
4.5: Conclusion
5.1: Linguistic Evidence
5.2: Literary Evidence
5.3: Graphic Evidence
5.4: Conclusion
6.1: Linguistic Evidence
6.2: Literary Evidence
6.3: Graphic Evidence
6.4: Conclusion
7.1: Introductory Remarks on Time and Place
7.2: The Tonalpohualli
7.3: The Xihuitl or Xiuhpohualli
7.4: Aztec Cosmogony
7.5: Aztec Time-Place: A Monistic and Processive Interpretation
7.6: Conclusion
8.1: The Dynamics of the Aztec Cosmos
8.2: Backstrap Weaving
8.3: Weaving the Fifth Sun-Earth Age
8.4: The First Four Sun-Earth Ages as Nepantla-Process
8.5: The Fifth Age as Nepantla-Generated Woven House
8.6: The Vertical Folding of the Cosmos and of the Fifth Age
8.7: Cosmos and Reality as Nepantla-Process
8.8: Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index