First Old WomanMan and the Mesoamerican Diphrastic Kenning of Engendering
The royalty of the Classic Maya of Mesoamerica, and later sages of the Maya, used a powerful diphrastic kenning chab akab’, glossed as “generation-darkness” to convey a range of objectives, conjuring foremost among them. Known principally from hieroglyphic written expressions, but also depicted in t...
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MDPI AG
2024-01-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/2/153 |