Author: Tompkins, Ptolemy.
Title: THIS TREE GROWS OUT OF HELL: Mesoamerica and the Search for the Magical Body.
Description: San Francisco: Harper, 1990. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. Sacrificial victims usually met their end abruptly in the Aztec cities while the Maya appear to have indulged in gruesome and protracted tortures of their captives. 189 pages. Small 8vo.

Keywords: Maya torture occult death symbolism