Sky in Mayan Literature by Aveni, Anthony F. (editor); Tedlock, Barbara; Bricker, Victoria; Bricker, Harvey; Hofling, Charles; O'Neil, Thomas; Closs, Michael; Lounsbury, Floyd; Paxton, Merideth; Frake, Charles - 1992

Oxford Univ Pr, 1992 297 pages, index, b/w illustrations. Text free of marks, small light spots on bottom edge shows slightly on first 6 pages, boards are clean. Dustjacket in Brodart, bright & clean with light scuff. Book deals with texts written in hieroglyphic script as well as post-contact alphabetic script. Contents include: Method for Cross-Dating Almanacs with Tables in the Dresden Codex; The Moon and the Venus Table; Eclipse Cycles in the Moon Goddess Almanacs; Some Parallels in the Astronomical Events Recorded in the Maya Codices and Inscriptions; Zodiacal References; A Derivation of the Mayan-to-Julian Calendar; Solution for the Number 1.5.5.0 of the Mayan Venus Table; The Books of Chilam Balam; Myth, Math and the Problem of Correlation; Lessons of the Mayan Sky.