Extended Interview: Religion at Teotihuacan

Season 1 Episode 3

About the Episode

Harvard professor of Religion David Carrasco speaks on religion in general and Teotihuacan in particular. He finds common elements that address the creation of the world, otherworldly powers, and peoples relationship to those powers.

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