Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

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Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos is written by Kay Almere Read and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253113911 (ISBN 10) and 9780253113917 (ISBN 13).

This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.