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By Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Julienne’s aunts are the archer who shot down the suns and the girl who lives at the moon. They educate her that there’s extra to town of her start than meets the attention – that underneath the trendy chrome and glass of Hong Kong there are demons, gods, and the seethe of historical feuds. As a mortal Julienne is to provide them extensive berth, for in contrast to her divine aunts she is painfully weak, and selection prey for any demon.

Until sooner or later, she comes throughout a wounded, bleeding girl nobody else can see, and is drawn into an previous, previous tale of affection, snake ladies, and the deathless monk who hunts them.

"Benjanun is a magician with words–she makes use of language to rouse every little thing from the feel of a competition meal, to the violence and melancholy of Houyi combating opposed to a demon; from the sensation of being resurrected from the useless, to a goddess looking at the increase of contemporary cities." – Aliette de Bodard, Hugo and Nebula award successful writer of "Immersion".

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This book advances Rediscovering Women and Gestation 9 Olmec studies by posing different questions that should expand the relevance of Formative Mesoamerica to a broader audience. In undertaking this study, I have confronted some of the difficult theoretical challenges in Mesoamerican studies, not the least of which are issues of gender construction and the post-structuralist critique of interpretation. Because I have found that gender was framed in ways that are unfamiliar and unexpected to many of my contemporaries, I introduce here some of the basic concepts guiding this study.

Joyce (2001:110) also suggests that the originary female-male couples featured in many Mesoamerican cosmogonies were constructed in three different ways. Either they were conflated by being given the same name, as in the case of similarly crowned Lord One Deer and Lady One Deer of the Mixtec Codex Vienna (Furst 1978); considered to be “both,” like the Aztec Ometecuhtli, a “Two-Lord” who parented other supernaturals; or conceived as fluid, being referred to in some sources as male and in others as female.

H: 55 cm. Museo de Arqueología, Jalapa. Drawing by author. 2 In the following sections we will weave in and out of these interpretive paradigms from their initial presentations to subsequent revisions. Coe’s insights and his enthusiasm for decoding Olmec iconography inspired his student Peter David Joralemon to undertake a more exhaustive analysis of incised symbols in Formative period visual culture. Joralemon, who at one time had been enrolled in divinity school, pursued the possibility raised by his professor of a pantheon of deities.