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Maya creation myths : words and worlds of the Chilam Balam /

There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth." But around the close of the seventeenth century, an anonymous Maya scribe penned what he called u kahlay cab tu kinil, "the world history of the era," which he chronicled events before Christianity came to the Peten. In this,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knowlton, Timothy W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2010.
Colección:Mesoamerican worlds.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Aspects of ancient Maya intellectual culture
  • Clandestine compilations and the colonial dialogue
  • Creation and apocalypse : the Katun 11 Ahau myth
  • Theogony, cosmology, and language in the ritual of the angels
  • The creation of the first people and the origin of suffering
  • The calendar and the catechism
  • "In whatever way it is chronicled."