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Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico

Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico

by David Bowles (Author)

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Synopsis

Spanish Conquistadors and the Imperial Catholic Church--through murder and fire?tried to erase from history the creation stories of the Aztecs and other Mexican peoples. But bits and pieces survived. Through long research and imagination, David Bowles has woven together a remarkable tapestry of the whole, from the beginnings of the world to when Cortes first stepped onto the Continent.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 07 Jun 2018
ISBN 10: 1941026729
ISBN 13: 9781941026724

Media Reviews
Strange and yet familiar, comforting and also inspiring, David Bowles' Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky brings Mesoamerican mythology to vivid life. A D'Aulaire' Book of Greek Myths for the twenty-first century, kids and adults will be left in awe. --Adam Gidwitz, author of the Newbery-Honor winning The Inquisitor's Tale

A masterful storyteller, Bowles packs the richness of the Mesoamerican cosmos into every sentence, bringing to vivid life ancient characters who are by turns funny, heartbreaking, lovable, grotesque, and venerable. ... Bowles's Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky will be crucial to Mesoamerican literary and cultural studies as well as important to Mexican and Mexican American rediscoveries of effaced pasts for many years to come. Scholars and readers of mythology and folklore: add this to the classics. World Literature Today

Author Bio
David Bowles: A product of a Mexican-American family, David lived most of his life in south Texas, where he teachs at the University of Texas. He has written several books, most notably the Pura Belpr Honor Book The Smoking Mirror.