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Star gods of the MayaMilbrath, Susan (1945-....) Susan Milbrath is Curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Affiliate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples.Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Precolumbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices [painted books], and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture.IntroductionThe Mesoamerican CalendarDecipherment of Maya GlyphsArchaeoastronomy and EthnoastronomyOverview of ContentsContemporary Maya Images of the HeavensThe Seasonal CycleThe Solar CalendarModern Maya Cosmic DiagramsHow the Sun Moves and TransformsThe Sun GodImages of EclipsesThe Lunar RhythmsLunar AgricultureThe Celestial PairThe Moon GoddessVenus among the Contemporary MayaThe Planets among the Contemporary MayaStars and ConstellationsThe Milky WayOther Celestial PhenomenaContemporary Maya Astronomy in Cultural ContextNaked-Eye AstronomyTracking the Solar SeasonsLunar Positions and PhasesEclipsesThe PlanetsThe Stars and the SeasonsPrecolumbian and Colonial Period Maya Solar ImagesThe Seasonal Cycle and the Solar CalendarSolar Orientations in ArchitectureThe Sun in Precolumbian Maya Cosmic DiagramsConcepts of the Sun's MotionThe Precolumbian Kin GlyphThe Sun God in the Colonial and Postclassic PeriodsThe Sun God at Chichén ItzáThe Sun KingClassic Maya Images of the Sun God and Earlier PrototypesThe Monkey's SunThe Solar Bird and Solar FireThe Sun and FelinesHunahpu and Hun AhauGIII: The Sun as the Middle BrotherThe Sun in the Precolumbian Maya WorldviewPrecolumbian and Colonial Period Lunar Images and DeitiesLunar CalendarsColonial and Postclassic Eclipse ImageryThe Dresden Codex Eclipse TableClassic Period Eclipse Imagery and EventsMaya Moon Glyphs and SymbolsLunar Symbolism of Fish, Frogs, Toads, and ShellsThe Moon and RabbitsThe Water-lily JaguarThe Jaguar War GodThe Jaguar Paddler: The Moon Paired with the SunThe Lunar Twin: XbalanqueThe Classic Period Moon God in Monumental ArtThe Young Moon Goddess in Colonial and Postclassic TimesThe Aged Moon in Colonial and Postclassic TimesThe Moon in the Postclassic Murals at TulumLunar Deities at Chichén ItzáThe Classic Maya Moon GoddessThe Ever-changing MoonVenus and Mercury: The Body DoublesVenus Observations among the Precolumbian MayaVenus in the Popol VuhColonial and Postclassic Images of VenusThe Dresden Codex Venus PagesThe Layout of Pages 46-50The Seasonal Aspects of VenusRegents and Victims in the Venus PagesQuetzalcoatl-Kukulcan: The Venus God from Central MexicoCentral Mexican Venus Symbols in the Maya AreaMaya Glyphs and Symbols Representing VenusVenus WarfareLineage Founders and the Venus CultTlaloc and the Storm GodChac and God B in Colonial and Postclassic YucatánClassic Period Images of ChacChac and GI in the Classic PeriodThe Sidereal Position of VenusVenus and the MoonMercury in Maya Imagery and CalendricsThe Inferior Planets in the Maya WorldviewThe Celestial WanderersColonial Period Images of the Superior PlanetsMars among the Precolumbian MayaMonkey Deities and the PlanetsGod K in the Colonial and Postclassic PeriodsThe Classic Period God K and GIIJupiter Events and God K on Classic Maya MonumentsClassic Period Calendar Records Relating to the Superior PlanetsAssembly of the GodsThe Celestial Wanderers as Planetary GodsStars, the Milky Way, Comets, and MeteorsComets, Meteors, and SupernovasImages of StarsThe Maya ZodiacThe PleiadesThe Scorpion and Skeletal Snake ConstellationsOrion and GeminiThe Peccary ConstellationBird ConstellationsCross Constellations and Stellar TreesThe North Star and the "Dippers"Central Mexican Images of the Milky WayThe Cosmic Monster and the Milky WaySerpent Forms of the Milky WayFour Roads in the Sky and Four ItzamnasClassic Period Monuments with Images of the Milky WayRotating the Milky WayThe Maya in the History of World AstronomyAppendix 1. Guide to Astronomical IdentitiesAppendix 2. Table of Classic Period Dates and Associated Astronomical EventsAppendix 3. Table for Calculating the Tzolkin IntervalsGlossaryBibliographyIndexPlatesEditeur : Austin : University of Texas pressDate de parution : 1999 Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-348 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm Collection : (The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies) Bibliogr. p. [313]-337. Index ISBN 0-292-75225-3 (rel.)  PARIS-BnF : - Tolbiac - Rez-de-jardin - libre-accès - Sciences et techniques - Salle R - Histoire des sciences : 509.7 MILB s- Richelieu - Manuscrits - magasin : 4-IMPR OR-9416 PARIS-Médiathèque MQB