This Tree Grows out of Hell: MesoAmerica and the Search for the Magical Body - Ptolemy Tompkins - Hardcover - 1st ed

Searches for an understanding, both spiritual and psychological, of the motivations that lie behind the building of that region's great pyramidal cities. He searches to understand the bizarre and bloody rituals the Mesoamericans practiced for centuries before the arrival of Columbus. Here the universe of the Toltecs, Maya, and Aztecs, with their celestial dragons, talking stones, and labyrinthine underworlds is vividly brought to life. Shows how the pyramids and temples of cities like Tenochtitlan and Chichen Itza were modeled on conceptions of the universe and the place of humankind within it that go back to the very beginnings of human history. Illustrated.Tompkins, Ptolemy is the author of 'This Tree Grows out of Hell: MesoAmerica and the Search for the Magical Body - Ptolemy Tompkins - Hardcover - 1st ed' with ISBN 9780062508669 and ISBN 0062508660.