Alfonso el de las Navas

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Pilar Máynez presenta una selección de los textos, extraídos de la Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España de fray Bernardino de Sahagún, sobre las fiestas, los rituales y las supersticiones de los antiguos mexicanos. Ante la imaginación del lector desfilarán la indumentaria de los participantes en las ceremonias, sus formas de abstinencia y los diferentes sacrificios que hacían cada mes. Asimismo se enterará de cómo concebían el universo los antiguos mexicanos y del destino que les deparaba el signo calendárico de su nacimiento. El pensamiento mágico y la profunda...

Las primeras personas que lograron elevarse a la vida civilizada fueron los olmecas. ¿Pero por qué siguen siendo relativamente desconocidos, y permanecen escondidos en los largos y oscuros pasadizos de la historia olvidada? Pero eso está por cambiar.

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