Maya Creation Myths: Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam

by Timothy Knowlton, Timothy W. Knowlton, Timothy Knowlton

Book Overview

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," before Christianity came to the Peten. He collected numerous accounts of the cyclical destruction and reestablishment of the cosmos; the origins of gods, human beings, and the rituals and activities upon which their relationship depends; and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607320207
• ISBN13: 9781607320203
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"