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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Knowlton, Timothy W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2010.
Series:Mesoamerican worlds.
Subjects:
Maya mythology.
Maya cosmology.
Creation.
Mythologie maya.
Cosmologie maya.
Création.
creating (artistic activity)
creation (doctrinal concept)
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Creation
Maya cosmology
Maya mythology
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."

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