Maya creation myths : words and worlds of the Chilam Balam / Timothy W. Knowlton.

There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth." But around the close of the seventeenth century, an anonymous Maya scribe penned what he called u kahlay cab tu kinil, "the world history of the era," which he chronicled events before Christianity came to the Peten. In this,...

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Main Author: Knowlton, Timothy W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2010.
Series:Mesoamerican worlds.
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