The K'iche' Maya creation story preserved in the sixteenth-century manuscript "Popol Vuh" describes the origin of the world and its people in a setting long assumed to be the Guatemalan central highlands. Now a scholar with a deep knowledge of Maya history shows that all of these mythological events occurred at specific locations and that this landscape was the template for the Maya worldview.
Examining the primary Maya deities, Karen Bassie-Sweet links geographic features to gods and beliefs. She reconstructs key elements of the "Popol Vuh" to argue that the three volcanoes around Lake...
The K'iche' Maya creation story preserved in the sixteenth-century manuscript "Popol Vuh" describes the origin of the world and its people in a set...
The Ch ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and culture, volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and the other authors assembled here uncover clear continuity between contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs and their ancient counterparts. With evocative and thoughtful essays by leading scholars of Maya culture, "The Ch ol Maya of Chiapas," the first collection to focus fully on the Ch ol Maya, takes readers deep into ancient caves and reveals new dimensions of Ch ol cosmology. In contemporary Ch...
The Ch ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and ...
