Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan

Author/Contributor(s):	Newsome, Elizabeth A
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Date:	07/01/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This ambitious study argues that Maya stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and the cosmology inherent in their vision of c