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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya
Popol Vuh The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya
Author: Adrian Recinos, Delia Goetz, Sylvanus G. Morley
ISBN-13: 9780806102054
ISBN-10: 0806102055
Publication Date: 1972
Pages: 267
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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This is the first complete version in English of the "Book of the People" of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Quatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest tmes and a branch of the ancient Maya, whose remarkable civilization in pre-Columbian America is in many ways comparable to the ancient civilization of the Mediterranean. Generally regarded as America's oldest book, the Popol Vuh, in fact, corresponds to our Christian Bible , and it is, moreover, the most important of the five pieces of the great library treasures of the Maya that survived the Spanish Conquest.