[Aztlan] tepantitla murals

[Michel Quenon]

I will second Matthew Robb's comments by suggesting two additional papers,
both by Karl Taube:

- /1983/ "The Teotihuacan Spider Woman" in Journal of American Lore 9(2):
107-189
- /1986/ "The Teotihuacan cave of origin: The Iconography and architecture
of emergence mythology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest" in RES:
Anthropology and Aesthetics 12: 51-82

Michel Quenon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew H. Robb" <mhrobb at yahoo.com>
To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] tepantitla murals


> Nandi,
>
> The initial identification of the 'Paradise of Tlaloc' section was made by
Alfonso Caso in the 1942 and has been hanging around ever since, but I think
few scholars would now identify the Tepantitla as the 'Tlalocan' as Caso saw
it. Esther Pasztory studied the murals extensively in her 1971 dissertation
and isolated the different ritual scenes - the ballgame, curing, sacrifice,
etc. More recently, Maria Teresa Uriarte has argued that the ballgame
depictions in the talud murals suggest that they represent a Teotihuacan
version of a pan-Mesoamerican creation myth, and Katherine Browder has
looked very closely at the glyph-like aspects of the paintings and
interpreted Tepantitla as a Teotihuacan "House of Song."
>
> Matthew Robb
>
>
> Caso, Alfonso
> 1942    El paraiso terrenal en Teotihuacan. Cuadernos Americanos
1(6):127-136.
>
> Pasztory, Esther
> 1971    The Murals of Tepantitla, Teotihuacan. Garland Publishing, New
York, NY, and London, UK.
>
> Browder, Jennifer
> 2005    Place of the High Painted Walls: The Tepantitla Murals and the
Teotihuacan Writing System. Ph.D., University of California Riverside.
>
> Uriarte, María Teresa
> 2006    The Teotihuacan Ballgame and the Beginning of Time. Ancient
Mesoamerica 17:17-38.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: nandi cohen <nandi.cohen at hotmail.com>
> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:12:56 PM
> Subject: [Aztlan] tepantitla murals
>
>
> I am teaching a Mesoamerican class and showed the Tepantitla mural from
Teotihuacan to my class--the one with the great goddess at the top and the
paradise of Tlaloc at the bottom.  My students were asking about the
significance of the Paradise of Tlaloc section.  I haven't been able to find
any information in the literature that speaks to the symbolism in that part
of the mural.  any and all suggestions would be a great help.  thanks!
>
> - Nandi Cohen
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