MYTHS AND PREHISPANIC ASTRONOMY: A LOOK FROM THE COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE
The information from the documents written during colonial times by Spanish fri ars attempted to provide an overview of the thought of Mesoamerican indigenous societies. These ideas are perma nently imprinted religious concepts that ordered the culture, and that signal the efforts of men to find its...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Repositorio: | Redalyc-UNAM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:redalyc.org:57150516013 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57150516013 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas Archaeoastronomy |
| Sumario: | The information from the documents written during colonial times by Spanish fri ars attempted to provide an overview of the thought of Mesoamerican indigenous societies. These ideas are perma nently imprinted religious concepts that ordered the culture, and that signal the efforts of men to find its role in the world and give sense to the astronomical and natural phenomena that are integrated into their religio n, particularly in the creation of myths. The generation of the gods, their tasks and areas of action are explo red here through the texts of Fray Andres del Olmo. |
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