[Aztlan] NEW FAMSI JOURNAL ARTICLE: THE MESOAMERICAN SACRUM

[David Hixson]

Estimados Listeros,

FAMSI and AZTLAN are proud to announce a new entry in
our FAMSI JOURNAL OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS:

THE MESOAMERICAN SACRUM BONE: DOORWAY TO THE
OTHERWORLD

By Brian Stross (UT-Austin).

http://research.famsi.org/aztlan/aztlan_journal.php

ABSTRACT:

This study links body symbolism, religious experience,
and visual representation through a consideration of
the sacrum bone and the surrounding pelvic girdle in
cosmological traditions of Mesoamerica.  An argument
is put forward, using ethnographic, linguistic, and
iconographic evidence, that the sacrum bone was a
"sacred" bone, that it played a significant part in
some Prehispanic Mesoamerican iconographic and
cosmological traditions as it did in some Old World
cultures, that it was related to reproduction,
fertility, and reincarnation, and that in Mesoamerica
the sacrum represented one index of the more
generalized but variously manifested "portals" or
doorways permitting translocation of shamans, spirits,
and deities between worlds or levels of the cosmos.
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And be sure to click on "Contributed Papers" to view
all of the articles available in the FAMSI Journal of
the Ancient Americas:

http://research.famsi.org/aztlan/papers_index.php

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If you have a paper, research report, or article you'd
like to submit to the FAMSI Journal, please fill out
the abstract form at:

http://research.famsi.org/aztlan/aztlan_submit.html

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Sincerely,

David Hixson
Mike Ruggeri
Fritz Schwaller
(Aztlan Moderators and
FAMSI Journal Founding Editors)


       
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