Mesoamerican Rituals and the Solar Cycle: New Perspectives on the Veintena" mode

Élodie Dupey García is a tenured Professor and Researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She holds a PhD in History of Religions from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (France). She has received a fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies from Dumbarton Oaks and a Scholar Grant from the Getty Research Institute. She is the editor of Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl and the volume Painting the Skin. Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (2018).

Elena Mazzetto is Adjunct Lecturer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), where she previously held a postdoctoral position. She also received a two-year postdoctoral grant from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and holds a PhD in History from the Universidad CaFoscari de Venecia (Italy) and the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France). She is the author of Lieux de culte et parcours cérémoniels dans les fêtes des vingtaines à Mexico-Tenochtitlan (2014).

Elena Mazzetto and Élodie Dupey García : Introduction - Rites and Myths in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica - Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos: Tezcatlipoca and the Maya Gods of Abundance: The Feast of Toxcatl and the Question of Homologies in Mesoamerican Religion - Guilhem Olivier: The Re-enactment of the Birth of the Gods in Mexica Veintena Celebrations: Some Observations - Élodie Dupey García: Quetzalcoatl in Nahua Myths and Rituals: Discreet or Omnipresent Protagonist? - Johannes Neurath: Beyond Nature and Mythology: Relational Complexity in Contemporary and Ancient Mesoamerican Rituals - Ritual Actors and Activities in the Veintena Festivals - Gabrielle Vail: Haab Festivals among the Postclassic Maya: Evidence from Ethnohistoric Sources and the Madrid Codex - Elena Mazzetto: Maize and Flaying in Aztec Rituals - John F.Schwaller: The Toxcatl and Panquetzaliztli Figurines - Sylvie Peperstraete: Myths, Rites, and the Agricultural Cycle: The Huixtotin Priests and the Veintenas - Pre-Columbian Categories, Colonial Interpretations - Mirjana Danilovic: Dance and Sacrificial Rituals in the Veintena Ceremonies - Andrea B.Rodríguez Figueroa, Mario Cortina Borja, and Leopoldo Valiñas Coalla: Ritual and Religious Practices Described in the Florentine Codex: Ritual Unit as a Structural Concept - Sergio Botta: An Augustinian Political Theology in New Spain: Towards a Franciscan Interpretation of the Veintenas - Rossend Rovira-Morgado: Bright Plumages, Teary Children, and Blessed Rains: Possible Reminiscences of Atlcahualo during the Indigenous Ceremonial Pomp of Saint Francis in Post-Conquest Mexico City - Danièle Dehouve: Epilogue - Notes on Contributors - Index.