"Mr. Allan Burns, I am here to tell you an example, the example of the Hunchbacks." So said Paulino Yama, traditionalist and storyteller, to Allan Burns, anthropologist and linguist, as he began one story that found its way into this book.
Paulino Yama was just one of several master storytellers from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico from whom Burns learned not only the Mayan language but also the style and performance of myths, stories, riddles, prayers, and other forms of speech of their people. The result is An Epoch of Miracles, a wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set...
"Mr. Allan Burns, I am here to tell you an example, the example of the Hunchbacks." So said Paulino Yama, traditionalist and storyteller, to Allan ...