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lodie Dupey Garca is a tenured Professor and Researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico. She holds a PhD in History of Religions from the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes (France). She has received a fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies from Dumbarton Oaks and a Scholar Grant from the Getty Research Institute. She is the editor of Estudios de Cultura Nhuatl and the volume Painting the Skin. Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (2018). Elena Mazzetto is Adjunct Lecturer at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), where she previously held a postdoctoral position. She also received a two-year postdoctoral grant from the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, and holds a PhD in History from the Universidad Ca’Foscari de Venecia (Italy) and the Universit Paris I Panthon-Sorbonne (France). She is the author of Lieux de culte et parcours crmoniels dans les ftes des vingtaines Mexico-Tenochtitlan (2014). Elena Mazzetto and lodie Dupey Garca : Introduction – Rites and Myths in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica – Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos: Tezcatlipoca and the Maya Gods of Abundance: The Feast of Toxcatl and the Question of Homologies in Mesoamerican Religion – Guilhem Olivier: The Re-enactment of the Birth of the Gods in Mexica Veintena Celebrations: Some Observations – lodie Dupey Garca: Quetzalcoatl in Nahua Myths and Rituals: Discreet or Omnipresent Protagonist? – Johannes Neurath: Beyond Nature and Mythology: Relational Complexity in Contemporary and Ancient Mesoamerican Rituals – Ritual Actors and Activities in the Veintena Festivals – Gabrielle Vail: Haab’ Festivals among the Postclassic Maya: Evidence from Ethnohistoric Sources and the Madrid Codex – Elena Mazzetto: Maize and Flaying in Aztec Rituals – John F.Schwaller: The Toxcatl and Panquetzaliztli Figurines – Sylvie Peperstraete: Myths, Rites, and the Agricultural Cycle: The Huixtotin Priests and the Veintenas – Pre-Columbian Categories, Colonial Interpretations – Mirjana Danilovic: Dance and Sacrificial Rituals in the Veintena Ceremonies – Andrea B.Rodrguez Figueroa, Mario Cortina Borja, and Leopoldo Valias Coalla: Ritual and Religious Practices Described in the Florentine Codex: Ritual Unit as a Structural Concept – Sergio Botta: An Augustinian Political Theology in New Spain: Towards a Franciscan Interpretation of the Veintenas – Rossend Rovira-Morgado: Bright Plumages, Teary Children, and Blessed Rains: Possible Reminiscences of Atlcahualo during the Indigenous Ceremonial Pomp of Saint Francis in Post-Conquest Mexico City – Danile Dehouve: Epilogue – Notes on Contributors – Index.
