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2000 years of Mayan literature /

A chronological survey of Mayan literature, covering two thousand years, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to later works using the Roman alphabet.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tedlock, Dennis, 1939-2016
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Mayan
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Learning to read
  • Early Mayan writing
  • The skilled observer from Maxam
  • From the time of gods to the time of lords
  • Cormorant and her three sons
  • Temple of the Sun-eyed shield
  • Temple of the Tree of yellow corn
  • Lady Shark fin and the evening star
  • The rattlesnakes of the City of three stones
  • Drawing and designing with words
  • Graffiti
  • The question of the beginning and end of time
  • The mouth of the well of the Itza
  • Writing on the pages of books
  • Signs of the times
  • Moon woman meets the stars
  • The power of the great star
  • Thunderstorm
  • Diagrams of the days
  • The alphabet arrives in the Lowlands
  • The books of Chilam Balam
  • Understanding the language of Suyua
  • Song of the birth of the twenty days
  • Conversations with madness
  • The alphabet arrives in the Highlands
  • A way to see the dawn of life
  • Blood moon becomes a trickster
  • The death of death
  • The human work, the human design
  • We saw it all, oh my sons
  • The count of days
  • Man of Rabinal
  • Epilogue.