Ziggy Quinete
Unveil the Sacred Powers of Central & South AmericaStep into a world where Feathered Serpents descend from the heavens, sun gods demand sacrifice, mountains become living ancestors, creator beings emerge from primordial darkness, sacred lakes give birth to dynasties, shamans communicate with powerful spirits, and divine forces govern rain, maize, fertility, warfare, death, the underworld, and the afterlife. Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Central & South American Mythology invites you into the extraordinary sacred worlds of the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Muisca, Amazonian, Mapuche, and many other Indigenous traditions-a vast mythological landscape shaped by temples, mountains, forests, rivers, celestial cycles, ritual offerings, ancestral memory, oral tradition, and centuries of sacred storytelling.From Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli, Tlaloc, Kukulkan, Itzamna, and Ix Chel to Viracocha, Inti, Pachamama, Mama Quilla, Bochica, Bachué, Makunaima, Nugkui, Ngünechen, and the great serpent powers Treng-Treng Vilu and Kai-Kai Vilu, this richly illustrated volume explores how gods, goddesses, ancestors, culture heroes, and sacred beings came to embody creation, destruction, sacrifice, fertility, warfare, agriculture, kingship, prophecy, healing, death, transformation, and cosmic order.Discover Feathered Serpents, Andean Gods, Amazonian Spirits & Sacred AncestorsRather than offering disconnected summaries, this encyclopedia enters the internal logic of the sacred traditions themselves. It reveals how divine power became connected to stepped pyramids, ceremonial plazas, sacred mountains, volcanic peaks, Amazonian forests, Andean lakes, maize fields, burial places, celestial bodies, ritual sacrifice, shamanic transformation, ancestral teachings, and the living landscapes through which Indigenous peoples understood their place within the cosmos.These stories show how creator gods, warrior deities, earth goddesses, divine twins, rain bringers, solar powers, underworld rulers, ancestral founders, culture heroes, and sacred spirits shaped ideas of kingship, agriculture, warfare, fertility, community, morality, death, rebirth, and the afterlife. Here Quetzalcoatl appears as the Feathered Serpent of knowledge and creation, Huitzilopochtli leads the Mexica beneath the power of the sun, the Hero Twins descend into the Maya underworld, Viracocha shapes the Andean world, Pachamama sustains life through the earth, Bochica brings order to the Muisca, Yebá Buró creates from primordial darkness, and Treng-Treng Vilu rises against the catastrophic waters of Kai-Kai Vilu.
