The Popol Vuh is a part of everyone, it doesn’t matter where you were born. It tells the story about one of the most important cultures that ever existed, the Mayans, and their vision of how the world was born.
Transcribed from Mayan hieroglyphs, the Popol Vuh relates the mythology and history of the Kiché people of Central America. There is no document of greater importance to the study of pre-Columbian mythology.
... 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.
Retells the stories from the mythology of the K'iche' Indians which were written down and preserved after the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. Reprint.
Popol Vuh
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 ...
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.
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
Literally meaning "Council Book," the Popol Vuh (or Popul Vuh) is a chief source of information on the history, genealogy, religion, mythology, and social organization of the Quiche Maya people of Guatemala.
This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text.