![]() It tells the story of how the world was created in a series of rehearsals that included wooden dummies, demi-gods, and eventually humans. In 1701, that text was translated into Spanish by a Dominican friar and ethnographer before vanishing mysteriously.Ĭosmic in scope and yet intimately human, the Popol Vuh offers invaluable insight into the Maya way of life before being decimated by colonization-their code of ethics, their views on death and the afterlife, and their devotion to passion, courage, and the natural world. ![]() In the mid-sixteenth century, as indigenous cultures across the continent were being threatened with destruction by European conquest and Christianity, it was written down in verse by members of the K’iche’ nobility in what is today Guatemala. The archetypal creation story of Latin America, the Popol Vuh began as a Maya oral tradition millennia ago. ![]()
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