CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MESOAMERICAN CALENDAR -- DECIPHERMENT OF MAYA GLYPHS -- ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND ETHNOASTRONOMY -- OVERVIEW OF CONTENTS -- 1. CONTEMPORARY MAYA IMAGES OF THE HEAVENS -- THE SEASONAL CYCLE -- THE SOLAR CALENDAR -- MODERN MAYA COSMIC DIAGRAMS -- HOW THE SUN MOVES AND TRANSFORMS -- THE SUN GOD -- IMAGES OF ECLIPSES -- THE LUNAR RHYTHMS -- LUNAR AGRICULTURE -- THE CELESTIAL PAIR -- THE MOON GODDESS -- VENUS AMONG THE CONTEMPORARY MAYA -- THE PLANETS AMONG THE CONTEMPORARY MAYA -- STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS -- THE MILKY WAY -- OTHER CELESTIAL PHENOMENA -- CONTEMPORARY MAYA ASTRONOMY IN CULTURAL CONTEXT -- 2. NAKED-EYE ASTRONOMY -- TRACKING THE SOLAR SEASONS -- LUNAR POSITIONS AND PHASES -- ECLIPSES -- THE PLANETS -- THE STARS AND THE SEASONS -- 3. PRECOLUMBIAN AND COLONIAL PERIOD MAYA SOLAR IMAGES -- THE SEASONAL CYCLE AND THE SOLAR CALENDAR -- SOLAR ORIENTATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE -- THE SUN IN PRECOLUMBIAN MAYA COSMIC DIAGRAMS -- CONCEPTS OF THE SUN'S MOTION -- THE PRECOLUMBIAN KIN GLYPH -- THE SUN GOD IN THE COLONIAL AND POSTCLASSIC PERIODS -- THE SUN GOD AT CHICHEN ITZA -- THE SUN KING -- CLASSIC MAYA IMAGES OF THE SUN GOD AND EARLIER PROTOTYPES -- THE MONKEY'S SUN -- SOLAR BIRDS AND SOLAR FIRE -- THE SUN AND FELINES -- HUNAHPU AND HUN AHAU -- GIII: THE SUN AS THE MIDDLE BROTHER -- THE SUN IN THE PRECOLUMBIAN MAYA WORLDVIEW -- 4. PRECOLUMBIAN AND COLONIAL LUNAR IMAGES AND DEITIES -- LUNAR CALENDARS -- COLONIAL AND POSTCLASSIC ECLIPSE IMAGERY -- THE DRESDEN CODEX ECLIPSE TABLE -- CLASSIC PERIOD ECLIPSE IMAGERY AND EVENTS -- MAYA MOON GLYPHS AND SYMBOLS -- LUNAR SYMBOLISM OF FISH, FROGS, TOADS, AND SHELLS -- THE MOON AND RABBITS -- THE WATER-LILY JAGUAR -- THE JAGUAR WAR GOD -- THE JAGUAR PADDLER: THE MOON PAIRED WITH THE SUN -- THE LUNAR TWIN: XBALANQUE -- THE CLASSIC PERIOD MOON GOD IN MONUMENTAL ART.

THE YOUNG MOON GODDESS IN COLONIAL AND POSTCLASSIC TIMES -- THE AGED MOON GODDESS IN COLONIAL AND POSTCLASSIC TIMES -- THE MOON IN THE POSTCLASSIC MURALS AT TULUM -- LUNAR DEITIES AT CHICHEN ITZA -- THE CLASSIC MAYA MOON GODDESS -- THE EVER-CHANGING MOON -- 5. VENUS AND MERCURY: THE BODY DOUBLES -- VENUS OBSERVATIONS AMONG THE PRECOLUMBIAN MAYA -- VENUS IN THE POPOL VUH -- COLONIAL AND POSTCLASSIC IMAGES OF VENUS -- THE DRESDEN CODEX VENUS PAGES -- THE LAYOUT OF PAGES 46 -50 -- THE SEASONAL ASPECTS OF VENUS -- REGENTS AND VICTIMS IN THE VENUS PAGES -- QUETZALCOATL-KUKULCAN: THE VENUS GOD FROM CENTRAL MEXICO -- CENTRAL MEXICAN VENUS SYMBOLS IN THE MAYA AREA -- MAYA GLYPHS AND SYMBOLS REPRESENTING VENUS -- VENUS WARFARE -- LINEAGE FOUNDERS AND THE VENUS CULT -- TLALOC AND THE STORM GOD -- CHAC AND GOD B IN COLONIAL AND POSTCLASSIC YUCATAN -- CLASSIC PERIOD IMAGES OF CHAC -- CHAC AND GI IN THE CLASSIC PERIOD -- THE SIDEREAL POSITION OF VENUS -- VENUS AND THE MOON -- MERCURY IN MAYA IMAGERY AND CALENDRICS -- THE INFERIOR PLANETS IN THE MAYA WORLDVIEW -- 6. THE CELESTIAL WANDERERS -- COLONIAL PERIOD IMAGES OF THE SUPERIOR PLANETS -- MARS AMONG THE PRECOLUMBIAN MAYA -- MONKEY DEITIES AND THE PLANETS -- GOD K IN THE COLONIAL AND POSTCLASSIC PERIODS -- THE CLASSIC PERIOD GOD K AND GII -- JUPITER EVENTS AND GOD K ON CLASSIC MAYA MONUMENTS -- CLASSIC PERIOD CALENDAR RECORDS RELATING TO THE SUPERIOR PLANETS -- ASSEMBLY OF THE GODS -- THE CELESTIAL WANDERERS AS PLANETARY GODS -- 7. STARS, THE MILKY WAY, COMETS, AND METEORS -- COMETS, METEORS, AND SUPERNOVAS -- IMAGES OF STARS -- THE MAYA ZODIAC -- THE PLEIADES -- THE SCORPION AND SKELETAL SNAKE CONSTELLATIONS -- ORION AND GEMINI -- THE PECCARY CONSTELLATION -- BIRD CONSTELLATIONS -- CROSS CONSTELLATIONS AND STELLAR TREES -- THE NORTH STAR AND THE ''DIPPERS'' -- CENTRAL MEXICAN IMAGES OF THE MILKY WAY.

THE COSMIC MONSTER AND THE MILKY WAY -- SERPENT FORMS OF THE MILKY WAY -- FOUR ROADS IN THE SKY AND FOUR ITZAMNAS -- CLASSIC PERIOD MONUMENTS WITH IMAGES OF THE MILKY WAY -- ROTATING THE MILKY WAY -- THE MAYA IN THE HISTORY OF WORLD ASTRONOMY -- APPENDIX 1. GUIDE TO ASTRONOMICAL IDENTITIES -- APPENDIX 2. TABLE OF CLASSIC PERIOD DATES, MONUMENTS, AND ASSOCIATED ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS -- APPENDIX 3. TABLE FOR CALCULATING THE TZOLKIN INTERVALS -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- PLATES following page 348.