How Long to Read Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents

How Long Does it Take to Read Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 31 minutes to read Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents by Rex Koontz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

El Tajín, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive sculptural programs. Yet the city's singularity as the only center in the region with such a wealth of sculpture and fine architecture has hindered attempts to place it more firmly in the context of Mesoamerican history. In Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents, Rex Koontz undertakes the first extensive treatment of El Tajín's iconography in over thirty years, allowing us to view its imagery in the broader Mesoamerican context of rising capitals and new elites during a period of fundamental historical transformations. Koontz focuses on three major architectural features—the Pyramid of the Niches/Central Plaza ensemble, the South Ballcourt, and the Mound of the Building Columns complex—and investigates the meanings of their sculpture and how these meanings would have been experienced by specific audiences. Koontz finds that the iconography of El Tajín reveals much about how motifs and elite rites growing out of the Classic period were transmitted to later Mesoamerican peoples as the cultures centered on Teotihuacan and the Maya became the myriad city-states of the Early Postclassic period. By reexamining the iconography of sculptures long in the record, as well as introducing important new monuments and contexts, Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents clearly demonstrates El Tajín's numerous iconographic connections with other areas of Mesoamerica, while also exploring its roots in an indigenous Gulf lowlands culture whose outlines are only now emerging. At the same time, it begins to uncover a largely ignored regional artistic culture of which Tajín is the crowning achievement.

How long is Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents?

Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents by Rex Koontz is 151 pages long, and a total of 37,901 words.

This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 27 minutes to read Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents aloud.

What Reading Level is Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents?

Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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