Barbara M. (bad) reviewed on 10/12/2008 + 191 more book reviews

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.

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