1? Qb 473 0T7 O ui Precious Greenstone Precious Quetzal Feather TOPEE HKYBEN Edited by Eloise Quinones Keber LABYRINTHOS / 2000 CONTENTS Introduction: Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather ix ELOISE QUINONES KEBER A Tribute to Doris Heyden 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 Teotihuacan? 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 Mesoamerica 55 ANTHONY AVENI and HORST HARTUNG //. Understanding Mesoamerican Texts: The Significance of Signs and Sources Guides for Living: The Divinatory Codices of Mexico 69 ELIZABETH HILL BOONE 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.