Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Love, Bruce

Titel

A Dresden Codex Mars Table?

Ist Teil von

• Latin American antiquity, 1995-12, Vol.6 (4), p.350-361

Ort / Verlag

New York, US: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1995

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The proposal that the Prehispanic Maya recorded the revolutions of the planet Mars was made in the 1920s, and subsequently dismissed by Eric Thompson. Victoria Bricker and Harvey Bricker, followed by John Justeson, have rekindled the debate by proposing new lines of evidence supporting a “Mars Table” in the Dresden Codex. A review of the evidence does not support their contention and concludes that Thompson, following Seler, was essentially correct when he interpreted the “Sky Beast” as associated with rain and lightning. The purported Mars table is in fact a variant of the Chac almanacs that deal with weather and agriculture.