This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
... contemporary patrilineage (who is always a diviner) dies, his successor must be installed in office by the head of a neighboring lineage, who is hired as an ajch'ajb'al laq, ajch'ajh'al tasa, “washer of the plate, washer of the cup.
Illustrated with more than eighty drawings, photographs, and maps, Allen J. Christenson’s authoritative version brings out the richness and elegance of this sublime work of literature, comparable to such epic masterpieces as the Ramayana ...
The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kiches of Central America
This is the first complete version in English of the "Book of the People" of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient Maya, whose remarkable civilization in pre ...
Retells the stories from the mythology of the K'iche' Indians which were written down and preserved after the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. Reprint.
Few texts survived, yet one did. It is called The Popol Vuh, the creation story of the Mayan culture. This was the first English rendering of that text.
One of the few Maya documents to survive the Spanish conquest, the Popol Vuh describes the creation of the Maya universe and of humans. It tells the tale of the...
Verse retelling of the K'iche' creation myth.
This translation is widely regarded as the most authoritative available, and includes the wonderful Limited Editions Club illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson. Numerous illustrations, 6 halftones.
Popol Vuh