[PDF.39bn] At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology (Latin American Monographs: No. 55)

At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology (Latin American Monographs: No. 55)

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 | #2319739 in Books |  1988-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.61 x5.98l,.88 | File type: PDF | 268 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Urton Knows it Because he Lived it|By Ken Wright|Gary Urton got to know a small community of Quechua-speaking Indians high on the Maras plain in the Cusco department (province) of Peru. Urton lived in the 12,400-foot-high community of Misminay during 1975 and 1976, performing oral interviews to learn about their agricultural calendar, their cosmology, and how they relied on th|About the Author|A recipient of both MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books and edited volume

Above Misminay, the sky also is so divided by the alternation of the two axes of the Milky Way passing through the zenith. This mirror-image quadri-partition of terrestrial and celestial spheres is such that a point within one of the quarters of the earth is related to a point within the corresponding celestial quarter. The transition between the earth and the sky occurs at the horizon, where sacred mountains are related to topographic and celestial features.

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