Quiche Worlds in Creation (English, German, Mayan and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Himelblau, Jack J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0911437274 ISBN 13: 9780911437270

Publisher: Labyrinthos, 1989

Synopsis

The story of the origins of the Maya are recorded in Popol Vuh, the com- munity book of the traditions and myths of the highland Quiche inhabitants of Middle America. At one end of the Popol Vuh the gods are preoccupied with the difficult task of making humans, and at the other, humans are preoc- cupied with the equally difficult task of finding the traces of divine move- ments in their own deeds. It is from this sacred book and from a land in which corn is the origin and sustenance of life that the Maya have created a spirituality where the realms of divine and human actions are joined by a mutual attraction. In 1975 Rene Acuna, a Maya cultural anthropologist, concluded his study "Problemas del Popol Vuh" with the assertion that the Popol Vuh was an apoc- ryphal work. His thesis was that a member of the Dominican order had access to Maya mythology and wrote the work for the purpose of converting the Maya to Christianity. Arthur Jack J. Himelblau, studying the Mesoamerican pre-Columbia

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Language Notes:

Text: English, German, Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: Labyrinthos
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0911437274
• ISBN 13: 9780911437270
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 55