The Smoking Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Smoking Mirror write by David Bowles. This book was released on 2016-03-15. The Smoking Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Carol and Johnny Garza are 12-year-old twins whose lives in a small Texas town are forever changed by their mother's unexplained disappearance. Shipped off to relatives in Mexico by their grieving father, the twins soon learn that their mother is a nagual, a shapeshifter, and that they have inherited her powers. In order to rescue her, they will have to descend into the Aztec underworld and face the dangers that await them. American Library Association, 2016 Pura Belpre Author Honor winning novel.
In the City of Smoking Mirrors
In the City of Smoking Mirrors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the City of Smoking Mirrors write by Albino Carrillo. This book was released on 2004. In the City of Smoking Mirrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Huitzilopochtli has returned. Aztec destroyer, god of sun and war. He of the hummingbird. Son of Coatlique, Our Lady of the Serpent Skin. But you can call him H. H. is reborn in the sprawling suburbs of an American metroplex in the late twentieth century, a place where "the future is a cartoon of the future." Life in suburbia is hard for an Aztec god: H. falls in and out of love, works downtown as an oficinista, raises children, and learns to command the awesome power of modern electronic media. Then one indifferent summer's day H. is seriously wounded by the policeÑin a case of mistaken identity, of courseÑand faces death once more. In the City of Smoking Mirrors relates H.'s adventures as he hovers between life and death, revisiting his homeland and ancestors. He issues letters and edictsÑto the faithful, to his dead amigosÑand chronicles his circumnavigation of the Land of the Dead and "what he saw there that made him write this book." In tantalizing verse that walks the edge of dream, Albino Carrillo takes readers on a lyrical exploration of a dark netherworld, a quest for hope in a universe overshadowed by impending doomÑa place where "The demons you'll have to defeat on your inward journey / Are like so many little yellow hornets buzzing about / Window screens in summer, angry but looking / For anything sweet, any way out . . . ." Through the unforgettable persona of Huitzilopochtli, Carrillo shows us the transitory nature of our passions and wounds as he chisels a new headstone for our times.
Smoking Mirror Blues
Smoking Mirror Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Smoking Mirror Blues write by Ernest Hogan. This book was released on 2001. Smoking Mirror Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AN ANCIENT GOD & Tezcatlipoca, the Mirror that Smokes, warrior/wizard god of the Aztecs. Western Civilization thought it wiped him out centuries ago... A NEW TECHNOLOGY & With the help of silly-bio nanochips, Beto Orozco creates an artificial intelligence version of Tezcatlipoca. The result is a computerized resurrection... THE FUTURE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME & So Tezcatlipoca hijacks Beto's body, and runs wild through futuristic Hollywood. The trickster adapts well to the brave, new world, and gets back to his old business of creating chaos and taking control... -- Cover page 4.
Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God
Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God write by Guilhem Olivier. This book was released on 2008-03. Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood Mesoamerican pantheon. Analyzing the sources and problems related to Tezcatlipoca's protean powers and shifting meanings, the author guides readers through the symbolic names of this great god, from his representation on skins and stones to his relationship to ritual knives and other deities.
Tezcatlipoca
Tezcatlipoca - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tezcatlipoca write by Elizabeth Baquedano. This book was released on 2015-01-15. Tezcatlipoca available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on “the lord of the smoking mirror,” one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to the understanding of Aztec religious beliefs and practices, contributors to this volume demonstrate the diverse ways material evidence expands on these traditional sources. The interlocking complexities of Tezcatlipoca’s nature, multiple roles, and metaphorical attributes illustrate the extent to which his influence penetrated Aztec belief and social action across all levels of late Postclassic central Mexican culture. Tezcatlipoca examines the results of archaeological investigations—objects like obsidian mirrors, gold, bells, public stone monuments, and even a mosaic skull—and reveals new insights into the supreme deity of the Aztec pantheon and his role in Aztec culture.
