Ebook: Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion

""3: Agonistic Inamic Unity""""3.1: Agonistic Inamic Unity""; ""3.2: Agonistic Inamic Unity as A Pattern in the Weaving of the Cosmos""; ""3.3: Examining Agonistic Inamic Unity""; ""3.4: Artistic Presentations of Agonistic Inamic Unity""; ""3.5: Abstract Inamic Pa irs""; ""3.6: Balance and Imbalance, and Center and Periphery Are Not Inamic Pairs""; ""3.7: Ometeotl""; ""3.8: Conclusion""; ""4: Teotl as Olin""; ""4.1: Olin""; ""4.2: Linguistic Evidence""; ""4.3: Literary Evidence""; ""4.4: Graphic Evidence""; ""4.5: Conclusion""; ""5: Teotl as Malinalli""; ""5.1: Linguistic Evidence"";""5.2: Literary Evidence""""5.3: Graphic Evidence""; ""5.4: Conclusion""; ""6: Teotl as Nepantla""; ""6.1: Linguistic Evidence""; ""6.2: Literary Evidence""; ""6.3: Graphic Evidence""; ""6.4: Conclusion""; ""7: Teotl as Time-Place""; ""7.1: Introductory Remarks on Time and Place""; ""7.2: The Tonalpohualli""; ""7.3: The Xihuitl or Xiuhpohualli""; ""7.4: Aztec Cosmogony""; ""7.5: Aztec Time-Place: A Monistic and Processive Interpretation""; ""7.6: Conclusion""; ""8: Weaving the Cosmos""; ""8.1: The Dynamics of the Aztec Cosmos""; ""8.2: Backstrap Weaving"";""8.3: Weaving the Fifth Sun-Earth Age""""8.4: The First Four Sun-Earth Ages as Nepantla-Process""; ""8.5: The Fifth Age as Nepantla-Generated Woven House""; ""8.6: The Vertical Folding of the Cosmos and of the Fifth Age""; ""8.7: Cosmos and Reality as Nepantla-Process""; ""8.8: Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"";""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Teotl""; ""1.1: Teotl""; ""1.2: Supporting Scholarship""; ""1.3: The Cosmos as Teotl�s Artistic-Shamanic Self-Transformation""; ""1.4: Some Implications of and Objections against Several Aspects of This Interpretation of Aztec Metaphysics""; ""1.5: Conclusion""; ""2: Pantheism""; ""2.1: Pantheism""; ""2.2: The Sacred""; ""2.3: Neltiliztli, Self-Presentation, and Nonhierarchical Well-Ordering""; ""2.4: Ixiptla and Teixiptla""; ""2.5: Animism""; ""2.6: Objections and Replies""; ""2.7: Conclusion""