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Part I. Introduction
1. An interdisciplinary approach to cosmology, calendars, and horizon-based astronomy / Susan Milbrath and Anne S. Dowd
Part II. Horizon-based Astronomy
2. Pyramids marking time : Anthony F. Aveni's contribution to the study of astronomical alignments in Mesoamerican architecture / Ivan Šprajc
3. Maya architectural hierophanies / Anne S. Dowd
4. Mountain of sustenance : site organization at Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl and Mesoamerican concepts of space and time / Ronald K. Faulseit
Part III. Cosmological Principles
5. The North Celestial Pole in ancient Mesoamerica / Clemency Coggins
6. A seasonal calendar in the Codex Borgia / Susan Milbrath
7. Iconography and metaphorical expressions pertaining to eclipses : a perspective from postclassic and colonial Maya manuscripts / Gabrielle Vail
8. The Maya deluge myth and Dresden Codex page 74 : not the end but the eternal regeneration of the world / John B. Carlson
Part IV. Calendar Records
9. The ancient Maya moon : calendar and character / Flora Simmons Clancy
10. Pecked circles and divining boards : calculating instruments in ancient Mesoamerica / David A. Freidel and Michelle Rich
11. The "Las Bocas mosaic" and Mesoamerican astro-calendrics : "calculator" or hoax? / Prudence M. Rice
12. Some alternative eclipse periodicities in Maya codices / Victoria R. Bricker and Harvey M. Bricker
13. Modeling indigenous Mesoamerican eclipse theory / John Justeson
Part V. Conclusion
14. Maya books and buildings at baktun's end / Anthony F. Aveni
List of contributors
Index
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