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The Ancient Future of the Itza: The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin
ISBN: 9780292721067 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The title of Edmonson's work refers to the Mayan custom of first predicting their history and then living it, and it may be that no other peoples have ever gone so far in this direction. The Book of Chilam Balam was a sacred text prepared by generations of Mayan priests to record the past and to predict the future. The official prophet of each twenty-year rule was the Chilam Balam, or Spokesman of the Jaguar--the Jaguar being the supreme authority charged with converting the prophet's words into fact. This is a literal but poetic translation of one of fourteen known... The title of Edmonson's work refers to the Mayan custom of first predicting their history and then living it, and it may be that no other peoples h... |
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145,47 zł |
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
ISBN: 9780292719378 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there. That they were in large part unsuccessful is evidenced by the survival of a number of documents written in Maya and preserved and added to by literate Mayas up to the 1830s. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is such a document, literally the history of Yucatan written by and for Mayas, and it contains much information not available from Spanish sources because it was part of an underground resistance movement of... When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flou... |
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176,69 zł |
Meaning in Mayan Languages: Ethnolinguistic Studies
ISBN: 9789027924896 / Angielski / Twarda / 1973 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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472,70 zł |
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 2: Linguistics
ISBN: 9780292744424 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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103,89 zł |