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Title The Sky in Mayan literature / edited by Anthony F. Aveni
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Description x, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: Making Time / Anthony F. Aveni -- 1. The bad of Light: Theory and Practice of Mayan Skywatching / Barbara Tedlock -- 2. A Method for Cross-Dating Almanacs with Tables in the Dresden Codex / Victoria R. Bricker and Harvey M. Bricker -- 3. The Moon and the Venus Table: An Example of Commensuration in the Maya Calendar / Anthony F. Aveni -- 4. Eclipse Cycles in the Moon Goddess Almanacs in the Dresden Codex / Charles A. Hofling and Thomas O'Neil -- 5. Some Parallels in the Astronomical Events Recorded in the Maya Codices and Inscriptions / Michael P. Closs -- 6. Zodiacal References in the Maya Codices / Harvey M. Bricker and Victoria R. Bricker -- 7. A Derivation of the Mayan-to-Julian Calendar Correlation from the Dresden Codex Venus Chronology / Floyd G. Lounsbury -- 8. A Solution for the Number 1.5.5.0 of the Mayan Venus Table / Floyd G. Lounsbury -- 9. The Books of Chilam Balam: Astronomical Content and the Paris Codex / Merideth Paxton
10. Myth, Math, and the Problem of Correlation in Mayan Books / Dennis Tedlock -- 11. Lessons of the Mayan Sky: A Perspective from Medieval Europe / Charles O. Frake
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Maya astronomy.
Maya calendar.
Mayan languages -- Writing.
SUBJECT Guatemala -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057628
Mexico -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084538
Author Aveni, Anthony F.
LC no. 91017130
ISBN 0195068440 (alk. paper)