Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

List of Figures

pp.：  9 – 10

Acknowledgements

pp.：  11 – 12

Introduction

pp.：  13 – 28

Mesoamerica and Ritual Calendars of Time

pp.：  14 – 15

Ritual Practice of Time as an Analytic Theoretical Concept

pp.：  16 – 20

Comparative Methodology of a History of Religions Explication of Rituals of Time

pp.：  21 – 22

The Organisation and Structure of (Ritual) Calendar Time

pp.：  23 – 22

Cosmogony and Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  23 – 23

Cosmology (Space) and Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  24 – 23

The Eschatology of Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  24 – 23

The Sociology and Politics of Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  24 – 24

The Religious Quality and Order of Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  25 – 24

The Ritual Symbolic Temporal Importance of the 260-day Calendar

pp.：  25 – 25

Note on Correlation and Orthography

pp.：  26 – 28

Chapter One

pp.：  29 – 164

THE RITUAL PRACTICE OF TIME OF THE LONG COUNT CALENDAR OF THE CLASSIC MAYA

pp.：  29 – 162

1. The Ritual Sequential (Interval) Structure of the Long Count Calendar

pp.：  31 – 32

2. Methodology of Analysing the Rituals of Time of the Long Count Calendar

pp.：  33 – 34

3. Cosmogonies and the Ritual Practice of Time and Space

pp.：  35 – 78

4. Eschatology and the Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  79 – 93

5. The Politics and Social Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  94 – 130

6. The Philosophy and Religious Ritual Practices of Linear Divine Time

pp.：  131 – 162

THE RITUAL PRACTICE OF TIME OF THE 260-DAY CALENDAR AND THE 365-DAY CALENDAR OF THE POSTCLASSIC YUCATEC CIVILISATION

pp.：  163 – 164

Chapter Two

pp.：  165 – 180

THE RITUAL PRACTICE OF TIME OF THE 260-DAY CALENDAR OF THE POSTCLASSIC YUCATEC CIVILISATION: THE BURNER CEREMONIES OF QUADRIPARTITE 65-DAY INTERVALS

pp.：  165 – 180

1. Interval Rituals of the 260-day Calendar in Mesoamerica

pp.：  165 – 165

2. Sources and Research History

pp.：  166 – 167

3. The 260-day Calendar of Mesoamerica

pp.：  168 – 170

4. The Quadripartite Ritual Sequential Interval (65-days) Structure of a Cycle of 260-days

pp.：  171 – 171

5. The Starting and Termination Date of the 260-day Calendar

pp.：  172 – 174

6. Cosmogony and the Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  175 – 175

7. A Spatial-Temporal (Quadripartite) Ritual

pp.：  176 – 177

8. A Symbolic Agricultural Temporal Ritual

pp.：  178 – 178

9. The Ritual Practice of the Quadripartite Interval Sequence of the Four Burner Periods (65-days) of 260-days

pp.：  179 – 180

Chapter Three

pp.：  181 – 242

THE RITUAL PRACTICE OF TIME OF THE 365-DAY CALENDAR OF THE POSTCLASSIC YUCATEC CIVILISATION

pp.：  181 – 242

1. The Cyclic Calendar Ending and Calendar Inaugurating Ritual

pp.：  181 – 182

2. Sources and Research History

pp.：  183 – 187

3. The Postclassic Yucatec New Year Ceremony as a Rite de Passage

pp.：  188 – 199

4. The Ritual Structure of the Mesoamerican and the European Catholic Liturgical 365-day Calendar

pp.：  200 – 202

5. An Interval Ritual: A Ritual Transition from Xul to Yaxk’in and Mol within the Postclassic Yucatec 365-day Calendar

pp.：  203 – 207

6. Cosmogony and the Ritual Practice of Time and Space

pp.：  208 – 211

7. A Spatial-Temporal Ritual

pp.：  212 – 213

8. The Politics and Social Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  214 – 222

9. The Year Bearer: A Deified Burden of Time of the Cyclic 365-day Calendar

pp.：  223 – 225

10. The Postclassic Yucatec New Year Festival as an Agricultural Ritual

pp.：  226 – 234

11. Order (Structure) Versus Disorder (Anti-Structure): A Ritual Structuring of Cyclical Agricultural Time

pp.：  235 – 242

Chapter Four

pp.：  243 – 348

THE RITUAL PRACTICE OF TIME OF THE 52-YEAR CALENDAR OF THE POSTCLASSIC AZTEC CIVILISATION

pp.：  243 – 348

1. The Cyclic 52-Year Calendar and the Aztec 52-Year Ritual of 1507 AD (Ome Acatl, 2 Reed)

pp.：  244 – 247

2. Sources and Brief Research History

pp.：  248 – 254

3. The Calendar Ending and Calendar Inaugurating Postclassic Aztec 52-year Ritual as a Rite de Passage

pp.：  255 – 264

4. Cosmogony and the Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  265 – 273

5 A Spatial-Temporal Ritual

pp.：  274 – 276

6. Eschatology and the Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  277 – 306

7. The Politics and Social Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  307 – 339

8. Order (Structure) Versus Disorder (Anti-Structure): A Ritual Structuring of Historical-Political Time

pp.：  340 – 348

Chapter Five

pp.：  349 – 432

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RITUAL PRACTICES OF TIME

pp.：  349 – 398

1. The Heterogenous Data

pp.：  349 – 354

2. The Structure of Time: Interval and Calendar Ending / Calendar Inaugurating Rituals

pp.：  355 – 356

3. Calendar Ending / Calendar Inaugurating Rituals of the 260-day Calendar, the 365-day Calendar and the 52-year Calendars

pp.：  357 – 356

4. The Structure of the Ritual Temporal Practice

pp.：  357 – 358

5. Cosmogony and the Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  359 – 360

6. The Spatial-Temporal Ritual Practice

pp.：  361 – 362

7. Eschatology and the Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  363 – 367

8. The Sociology of the Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  368 – 371

9. The Politics of the Ritual Practice of Time

pp.：  372 – 376

10. The Cultural Ritual Practice of Time of Various Calendars

pp.：  377 – 388

11. An Ordering and Structuring of Deified Calendar Time in Polymorphous, Poly-semantic and Poly-functional Ritual Practices

pp.：  389 – 391

12. The Symbolic-Temporal Principle of the 260-day Calendar in Mesoamerican Religion(s)

pp.：  392 – 398

BIBLIOGRAPHY

pp.：  399 – 430

INDEX

pp.：  431 – 432