By Rudolfo Anaya,David M. Johnson
The historic Mexicans, like different peoples through the international, wrestled with rules and metaphors in which to grasp the Godhead and built their very own strategies approximately their courting to the universe. Quetzalcóatl got here to the Toltecs to coach them artwork, agriculture, peace, and data. He was once a redeemer god, and his tale conjures up, instructs, and entertains, as do all of the nice myths of the world.
Now on hand in paperback, the Lord of the sunrise is Anaya’s exploration of the cosmology and the wealthy and complicated religious considered his local American ancestors. the tale depicts the day-by-day international of guy, the fight among the peacemakers and the warmongers, and the realm of the gods and their function within the lifetime of mankind.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Rudolfo Anaya, greatly acclaimed as one of many founders of contemporary Chicano literature, is professor emeritus of English on the college of recent Mexico. he's most sensible recognized for the vintage Bless Me Ultima.
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