Popol Vuh
by Anonymous
The Maya creation story, finally in its own words.
you want to understand Mesoamerican civilization from inside its own mythology rather than through the lens of the people who conquered it
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The sacred book of the K'iche' Maya, written down in the 16th century from oral tradition that predates the conquest by centuries. The creation of the world, the Hero Twins defeating the lords of death, the making of humans from corn. The Indigenous Americas' answer to Genesis — and older, and stranger, and more interesting. Everything that Mesoamerican civilization built was built inside this worldview. Start here.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
- Themes
- True Cost of Empire
