Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 1991
Journal / Book Title
Conjunctions
Abstract
The Aztec upright drum, tlalpan huehuetl, stood totally silent in the Metropolitan exhibit from Mexico, headless, covered with a swirling visual text which includes two carved eagles and three jaguars, each uttering the sign of holy conflagration in war," blazing water" on one side a transfigured warrior rising up in eagle attire—quauhtlehuanitl" eagle rising," a figure of the sun from dawn to midday—and opposite him a drooping eye at the axis of a quincunx, pierced south to north by a short, angular dart—the calendrical sign 4 Motion, the name of this fifth age of the world, destined to collapse in earthquake, pestilence and fire.
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Gingerich, Willard, "Drum of Poetry, Drum of War" (1991). Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 78.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/english-facpubs/78
Published Citation
Gingerich, W. (1991). Drum of Poetry, Drum of War. Conjunctions, (16), 272-279.