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The Symbolism of Jade in Classic Maya Religion
Karl A. Taube
article · 2005
Karl A. Taube, “The Symbolism of Jade in Classic Maya Religion,” Ancient Mesoamerica 16 (2005).
Ancient Mesoamerica 16
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Maya tradition
Jade is used in Maya tradition.
Classic Maya jadeite has its own ritual and kingly jobs. Taube’s article keeps that symbolism off Chinese yu.
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Cacao is used in Maya tradition.
Mesoamerican elites prepared cacao as a drink. A plant and a court beverage, not later chocolate advertising as ritual.
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Taube describes Classic Maya jadeite in funerary rites and in conjuring gods and ancestors, as a material of the breath-spirit. A Maya tomb and earspool grammar, not Chinese orifice-plugs and not a pan-Mesoamerican “jade of immortality.”
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Taube argues Classic Maya jadeite can stand for maize (among other jobs). A Maya religious identification of a hard green stone with the staple grain, not Chinese burial jade and not Sahagún’s maize-as-food.
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Jadeite appears in Maya tradition.
Taube’s jade article treats jadeite as the hard pyroxene jade of Classic Maya regalia and rite. A named mineral in that study, not Chinese nephrite and not generic greenstone.
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Breath appears in Maya tradition.
Taube’s jade article treats Classic Maya jadeite as a material of the breath-spirit in funerary and conjuring speech. A named breath in that Maya religious grammar, not Book of the Dead breath alone and not a generic yoga dump.
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Heart appears in Maya tradition.
Taube’s jade study seats the heart among Classic Maya body and jade-regalia speech tied to breath and life-force. A named heart in that Maya grammar, not Book of the Dead heart-weighing alone and not Norse poetic heart-kenning alone.
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Jade is associated with Green.
Jade is often green in both China and Mesoamerica. Color is shared; the rites are not.
from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912; Karl A. Taube · The Symbolism of Jade in Classic Maya Religion, 2005
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Jade is associated with Stone.
Jade is a stone that can be worked. Ritual jobs come after hardness.
from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912; Karl A. Taube · The Symbolism of Jade in Classic Maya Religion, 2005
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Nahua tradition
Jade is connected to Obsidian.
Mesoamerican working of hard green stone and of volcanic glass are neighboring crafts. They are not one “sacred stone” of later shops.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577; Karl A. Taube · The Symbolism of Jade in Classic Maya Religion, 2005
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