Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book of The Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings

Tedlock, Dennis (translator)

ISBN 10: 0684818450 / ISBN 13: 9780684818450

Published by Touchstone /Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996

About this Item

8vo, 388 pp., Revised and expanded edition.

Seller Inventory # 078116

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book of The Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings
• Publisher: Touchstone /Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684818450
• ISBN 13: 9780684818450
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: Revised ed.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mythology

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Synopsis

Popol Vuh, the Quiché 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 Quiché 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.

About the Author

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.