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Popol Vuh (Paperback)
Victor Montejo; Illustrated by Luis Garay; Translated by David Unger
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The Mayans have long fascinated modern readers with their complex
written language, sophisticated mathematics, and advanced
astronomy. In Guatemala in 1558, a young Mayan K'iche' man
transcribed what he called a sacred book that "we can no longer
see." This was the Popul Vuh, the Mayans' written account of the
creation of the universe, the gods and demi-gods who occupied that
universe, and the story of how man was created by them.
Furthermore, it traced, generation by generation, the lineage of
the Mayan lords down to their imprisonment and torture by the
Spanish invaders. Considered the Mayan bible, the Popol Vuh appears
here in an authoritative, gorgeously illustrated version by noted
Maya anthropologist Victor Montejo, who has captured all the drama
and excitement of one of the world's great creation stories.
Un libro sagrado del pueblo maya k'iche' sobrevivio a la
destruccion de los escritos de la cultura maya por religiosos
espanoles. El Popol Vuj fue transcrito en el alfabeto latino en
1558 y traducido al espanol en 1701. La narracion traza las
tradiciones y los origenes mitologicos del pueblo k'iche' ademas de
contar su historia, su cronologia y la sucesion de generaciones de
reyes y senores hasta la conquista. Contado para ninos por el
eminente antropologo maya, Victor Montejo.
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