Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life And The Glories OfPopol 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. |
Contents
Illustrations | 13 |
PART FOUR | 16 |
Introduction | 21 |
PART | 32 |
Here is the beginning of the defeat and destruction of the day | 77 |
Now this is the defeat and death of Zipacna | 84 |
And now we shall name the name of the father of Hunahpu | 91 |
And these are the lords over everything | 92 |
So now there was fire in their hearts | 111 |
First they entered Dark House | 119 |
So next they entered the midst of the fire | 125 |
This is the making of the oven | 131 |
And then they named their names | 138 |
And then they came away just camping on the road | 157 |
And here they burn their copal | 163 |
And here is the joining together of all the tribes | 170 |
And here is the account of a maiden | 98 |
And this is their birth we shall tell of it here | 104 |
And then they remembered what had been said about the east | 179 |
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Common terms and phrases
ancient Andrés Xiloj animals Artisan Auilix ball court Bearded Place birds Blood Moon blowgun bones Cakchiquels called canyon Cauecs citadel Classic Maya Copán corn Dark Jaguar dawn day names daykeepers deer defeated divinatory divine DRAWING BY CARLOS Dresden Codex earth face father Four Hundred Boys gods Greathouses Guatemala Hacauitz head Heart of Sky human Hunahpu and Xbalanque Hurricane Ilocs Jaguar Night Jaguar Quitze Junajpu Kaminaljuyú KARL TAUBE Keeper Kekchí laughing falcon literally Lord Quichés lords of Xibalba lordship maiden Mayan Mayan languages means messengers Monkey mother-father mountain mouth Nahua Nahuatl Noble Sweatbath owls Plumed Serpent Popol Vuh Quiché lineages Quiché lords Reception House Mat refers reign of Quicab road Rotten Cane sacrifice Seven Death Seven Hunahpu Seven Macaw star stone Tedlock Thunderbolt Tohil told Totonicapán translation tree tribes Tulan twins Venus verb stem word Xmucane Xpiyacoc Yucatán Yucatec Zipacna Zuyua