Mending the past. Ix Chel and the invention of a modern pop goddess

• Autores: Traci Ardren
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 80, Nº 307, 2006, págs. 25-37
• Idioma: inglés
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  • For modern communities, she is the moon goddess and protectress of Maya culture and women; for scholars she is one of a number of deities with different roles in the Postclassic period. Which is the real Ixchel? The author excavates the story of the Maya goddess and her re-invention by myth-makers � including archaeologists.