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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Popol vuh. English. Popol vuh. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1985 (OCoLC)558165945 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dennis Tedlock |
| ISBN: | 067145241X 9780671452414 |
| OCLC Number: | 11467786 |
| Notes: | Translated from the Quiché. |
| Description: | 380 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Popol vuh. |
| Responsibility: | translated by Dennis Tedlock, with commentary based on the ancient knowledge of the modern Quiché Maya. |
Abstract:
"The Popol Vuh, the Quiche Mayan book of creation, is one of the extraordinary documents of the human imagination and the most important text in the native languages of the Americas. 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 Quiche kingdom in the Guatemalan highlands. Originally written in Mayan hieroglyphs, it was transcribed in the Spanish alphabet in the sixteenth century. This is the first unabridged English edition of the work, in Dennis Tedlock's widley prasied translation, with a full introduction and commentaries on the text." From the bookjacket.
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