The Maya apocalypse and its western roots
"Offers an accessible readable survey of apocalyptic thinking in two civilizations-Western and Maya-driven by a clear and compelling argument. The authors explore why end-of-times anxiety and anticipation is so deeply rooted and persistent in Western civilization"--
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Lanham
Rowman & Littlefield
[2022]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: You really can survive
- The history of the end of the world : the Maya prediction
- They deserve better : the Maya evidence
- God is angry : the millenarian mother lode
- The Moctezuma factor : the end of the world comes to Mexico
- Apocalypto : the millennium comes to the Maya
- We are always almost there : why people believe