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LABYRINTHOS / 2000 CONTENTS

Introduction: Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather ix ELOISE QUINONES KEBER

A Tribute to xi ALFREDO LOPEZ AUSTIN

Doris Heyden: Mujer-Diosa xv DAVID CARRASCO

An Interview with Doris Heyden xvii ^ MICHEL BESSON

Bibliography of Doris Heyden xxxii

About the Contributors xxxvix

/. Understanding the Mesoamerican Natural World: Matter and Meaning

iUn Chicomostoc en ? The Contribution of the Heyden Hypothesis to Mesoamerican Cave Studies ' 1 JAMES E. BRADY

Mexico's Maddening Plants of the Sixteenth Century According to the Florentine Codex 15 ROBERT BYE and EDELMIRA LINARES

Xochiquetzal and the Lunar Cult of Central Mexico 31 SUSAN MILBRATH

Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern 55 ANTHONY AVENI and HORST HARTUNG

//. Understanding Mesoamerican Texts: The Significance of Signs and Sources

Guides for Living: The Divinatory Codices of Mexico 69 vii VIII CONTENTS

The Almanac on Pages lOb-llb of the Madrid Codex and the Burner Cycle of the Maya 83 MERIDETH PAXTON

The Home Town of the Rulers of the Codex Muro 103 MARY ELIZABETH SMITH

Tlaloc and the Sources: Problems and Possibilities of Interpreting Indigenous Worlds within Colonial Texts 115 PHILIP P. ARNOLD

Hugh Thomas' Conquest: Observations on the Coverage of the Indigenous Cultures 129 H. B. NICHOLSON

The Flayed God and the Holy Trinity: Fray Diego Duran and Spanish Visual Vocabulary 137 4 JILL LESLIE McKEEVER FURST

Ancestors in Limbo: Christ's Descent to Hell in Nahua-Christian Literature 147 LOUISE M. BURKHART

///. Understanding Mesoamerican Societies: (Reconstructing Systems

Sex, War, and Rulers: Mexica Royal Images of Boundary Breaking and Making 159 KAY ALMERE READ

The Imperial Subversion of Aztec Xaltocan 169 ELIZABETH M. BRUMFIEL

Three Thousand Years of Mesoamerican Clothing 183 PATRICIA RIEFF ANA WALT

D. H. Lawrence's Third Visit to Casa Alvarado 205 ROSS PARMENTER