{"product_id":"mockeries-and-metamorphoses-of-an-guilhem-olivier-9780870819070","title":"Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, \"Lord of the Smoking Mirror\"","description":"Guilhem Olivier's \u003ci\u003eMockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An enigmatic and melodramatic figure, the Lord of the Smoking Mirror was both drunken seducer and mutilated transgressor and although he severely punished those who violated pre-Columbian moral codes, he also received mortal confessions. A patron deity to kings and warriors as well as a protector of slaves, Tezcatlipoca often clashed in epic confrontations with his \"enemy brother\" Quetzalcoatl, the famed Feathered Serpent. Yet these powers of Mesoamerican mythology collaborated to create the world, and their common attributes hint at a dual character. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a sophisticated, systematic tour through the sources and problems related to Tezcatlipoca's protean powers and shifting meanings, Olivier guides readers through the symbolic names of this great god, from his representation on skins and stones to his relationship to ritual knives and other deities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing upon iconographic material, chronicles written in Spanish and in Nahuatl, and the rich contributions of ethnography, \u003ci\u003eMockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God\u003c\/i\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guilhem Olivier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870819070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870819070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.98h x 8.08w x 0.89d","brand":"Guilhem Olivier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46617863618815,"sku":"9780870819070","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2bb0bc31-f1d4-4ee0-bbdf-976a47b53538.jpg?v=1740068537","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mockeries-and-metamorphoses-of-an-guilhem-olivier-9780870819070","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}