Maya creation myths : words and worlds of the Chilam Balam /

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: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 2010
Series:Mesoamerican worlds.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central