Title: Popol Vuh The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0684818450
ISBN 13: 9780684818450
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fine

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Popol Vuh, the Quich� Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a primeval sea and ends with the radiant splendor of the Mayan lords who founded the Quich� kingdom in the Guatemalan highlands. Originally written in Mayan hieroglyphs, it was transcribed into the Roman alphabet in the sixteenth century.
This new edition of Dennis Tedlock's unabridged, widely praised translation includes new notes and commentary, newly translated passages, newly deciphered hieroglyphs, and over forty new illustrations.

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Dennis Tedlock is McNulty Professor of English and Research Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the coeditor of American Anthropologist and the author of several books.

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