ART H213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ancient Maya Art, Quetzalcoatl, Geometric Abstraction
12 Jul 2018
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Teotihuac n [aztec name meaning the city of the gods], classic period ca. 150 - 700 ce dont know what the people called themselves did not have a hieroglyphic writing system. Teotihuac n - humble god threw himself into the re and sacri ced himself, blew up and became the sun, second god did it and became the moon, and the rest did it and became the stars. Quetzalcoatl, thrown out and sent into exile by its people, departed to the west [towards europe] vowed when he departed that he would return and re-conquer. Nahuatl ch = ch (chinampa) x = s or sh (mexica) hu = w (huastec) tl = not a sound we have in english. The founding of tenochtitlan, most manuscipts are from just after the conquest, painted on animal skin, fusions of traditional aztec and europeanized ways of writing. 200,000 people population, 5 times the size of london at the moment,
