TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brady,James Edward
AU  - Prufer,Keith M.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - In the maw of the earth monster: mesoamerican ritual cave use 
T2  - The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
AV  - F1219.3.R38 I5 2005eb
U1  - 305.897/42 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Indians of Mexico
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Religion
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Caves
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : a history of Mesoamerican cave interpretation / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer -- Rites of passage and other ceremonies in caves / Doris Heyden -- The cave-pyramid complex among the contemporary Nahua of northern Veracruz / Alan R. Sandstrom -- Constructing mythic space : the significance of a chicomoztoc complex at Acatzingo Viejo / Manuel Aguilar ... [et al.] -- Pre-Hispanic rain ceremonies in Blade Cave, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico / Janet Fitzsimmons -- Sacred caves and rituals from the northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico : new revelations / Carlos Rinc�on Mautner -- Some notes on ritual caves among the ancient and modern Maya / Evon Z. Vogt and David Stuart -- Shamans, caves, and the roles of ritual specialists in Maya society / Keith M. Prufer -- Cave stelae and megalithic monuments in western Belize / Jaime J. Awe, Cameron Griffith, and Sherry Gibbs -- A cognitive approach to artifact distribution in caves of the Maya area / Andrea Stone -- Cluster concentrations, boundary markers, and ritual pathways : a GIS analysis of artifact cluster patterns at Actun Tunichil, Muknal, Belize / Holley Moyes -- Ethnographic notes on Maya Q'eqchi' cave rites : implications for archaeological interpretation / Abigail E. Adams and James E. Brady -- A Lacandon religious ritual in the cave of the god Tsiban�a at the holy lake of Mensabok in the rainforest of Chiapas / Jaroslaw Theodore Petryshyn -- Beneath the Yalahau : emerging patterns of ancient Maya ritual cave use from northern Quintana Roo, Mexico / Dominique Rissolo -- Caves, karst, and settlement at Mayap�an, Yucat�an / Clifford T. Brown -- Concluding comments / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10185702
ER  -