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,...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colo. :
University Press of Colorado,
©2010.
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Series: | Mesoamerican worlds.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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."