READING MAIZE: A NARRATIVE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF DIVINATION IN MESOAMERICA.
The casting of maize seeds is a tool used by contemporary daykeepers in the Ayöök (Mixe) area of Oaxaca, Mexico, which along with the prognostications and prescriptions of the 260-day calendar, helps to cure illnesses and afflictions. This divinatory practice was also employed by precolonial tonalpo...
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