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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Traci Ardren
Traci Ardren*
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dept of Anthropology, University of Miami, P.O. Box 248106, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
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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.

Keywords

MayaPostclassicreligionsymbolic archaeologypost-modern archaeologyfeminism
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 307 , 1 March 2006 , pp. 25 - 37
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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