That this text survives to this day is something of a minor miracle. Spanish priests threw any Mayan texts they could lay their hands on into bonfires as the works of the devil. However, one complete ...

Every culture has an origin story. Many Latinos can trace their cultural roots to an epic poem that was passed down in Central America for over a millennium — but this rich, important history has been ...

An exhibition, Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Quiché through Illustration, featuring 65 original artworks by artist Jaime Arredondo is on view at Irving Archives and Museum. The exhibition is ...

The Popol Vuh, an account of the Mayan creation myth, is rooted in an oral tradition. It was likely written down in pre-Columbian times in Mayan hieroglyphics; today's it's preserved only in a ...

El escritor y académico mexicano Ilan Stavans acaba de publicar una traducción al inglés del Popol Vhu, una obra clásica que recopilación de leyendas de la civilización maya. Cuenta la creación del ...

POPOL VUH : THE DEFINITIVE EDITION OF THE MAYAN BOOK OF THE DAWN OF LIFE AND THE GLORIES OF GODS AND KINGS TRANSLATED BY DENNIS TEDLOCK WITH COMMENTARY BASED ON THE ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE MODERN ...

Appendix (p. 237-239) : Paper concerning the origin of the lords.

During the pandemic, English professors Edgar Garcia and Timothy Harrison began to notice connections between two seemingly different texts also written in moments of crisis. John Milton’s epic ...

Jaime Arredondo, the artist and curator behind Popul Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Quiché through Illustration, will be giving a presentation of his work at Deep Vellum on Saturday, Jan 20 at 7PM. The ...