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2000 years of Mayan literature / Dennis Tedlock ; with new translations and interpretations by the author

Author
Tedlock, Dennis, 1939-2016
Additional Titles
Two thousand years of Mayan literature
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
xi, 465 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

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Language Note
Includes parallel Mayan and English text.
Contents
Learning to read -- Early Mayan writing -- The skilled observer from Maxam -- From the time of gods to the time of lords -- Cormorant and her three sons -- Temple of the Sun-eyed shield -- Temple of the Tree of yellow corn -- Lady Shark fin and the evening star -- The rattlesnakes of the City of three stones -- Drawing and designing with words -- Graffiti -- The question of the beginning and end of time -- The mouth of the well of the Itza -- Writing on the pages of books -- Signs of the times -- Moon woman meets the stars -- The power of the great star -- Thunderstorm -- Diagrams of the days -- The alphabet arrives in the Lowlands -- The books of Chilam Balam -- Understanding the language of Suyua -- Song of the birth of the twenty days -- Conversations with madness -- The alphabet arrives in the Highlands -- A way to see the dawn of life -- Blood moon becomes a trickster -- The death of death -- The human work, the human design -- We saw it all, oh my sons -- The count of days -- Man of Rabinal -- Epilogue.
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ISBN
9780520232211 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520232216 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-440) and index.
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