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Author : Ruth Gubler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of Chilam Balam of Na written by Ruth Gubler and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Loveland Roys
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146552701X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel written by Ralph Loveland Roys and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Caso Barrera
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360131
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Chilam Balam of Ixil: Facsimile and Study of an Unpublished Maya Book written by Laura Caso Barrera and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chilam Balam of Ixil Laura Caso Barrera translates for the first time a Yucatec Maya document that resulted from the meticulous reading by the Colonial Maya of various European texts.
Author : Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780872862104
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Destruction of the Jaguar written by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 1987-10-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno writes in his introduction to Destruction of the Jaguar that ""The Books of Chilam Balam are the only principal surviving texts of the ancient Maya. Written in the Mayan language but in European script, they are generally...
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789319
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Future of the Itza written by and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of Edmonson's work refers to the Mayan custom of first predicting their history and then living it, and it may be that no other peoples have ever gone so far in this direction. The Book of Chilam Balam was a sacred text prepared by generations of Mayan priests to record the past and to predict the future. The official prophet of each twenty-year rule was the Chilam Balam, or Spokesman of the Jaguar—the Jaguar being the supreme authority charged with converting the prophet's words into fact. This is a literal but poetic translation of one of fourteen known manuscripts in Yucatecan Maya on ritual and history. It pictures a world of all but incredible numerological order, slowly yielding to Christianity and Spanish political pressure but never surrendering. In fact, it demonstrates the surprising truth of a secret Mayan government during the Spanish rule, which continued to collect tribute in the names of the ruined Classic cities and preserved the essence of the Mayan calendar as a legacy for the tradition's modern inheritors. The history of the Yucatecan Maya from the seventh to the nineteenth century is revealed. And this is history as the Maya saw it—of a people concerned with lords and priests, with the cosmology which justified their rule, and with the civil war which they perceived as the real dimension of the colonial period. A work of both history and literature, the Tizimin presents a great deal of Mayan thought, some of which has been suspected but not previously documented. Edmonson's skillful reordering of the text not only makes perfect historical sense but also resolves the long-standing problem of correlating the two colonial Mayan calendars. The book includes both interpretative and literal translations, as well as the Maya parallel couplets and extensive annotations on each page. The beauty of the sacred text is illuminated by the literal translation, while both versions unveil the magnificent historical, philosophical, and social traditions of the most sophisticated native culture in the New World. The prophetic history of the Tizimin creates a portrait of the continuity and vitality, of the ancient past and the foreordained future of the Maya.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chilam-Balam
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel written by Chilam-Balam and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabrielle Vail
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322218
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Re-Creating Primordial Time written by Gabrielle Vail and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period. Remarkable similarities exist within the Maya tradition, even as new mythologies were introduced through contact with the Gulf Coast region and highland central Mexico. Vail and Hernández analyze the extant Maya codices within the context of later literary sources such as the Books of Chilam Balam, the Popol Vuh, and the Códice Chimalpopoca to present numerous examples highlighting the relationship among creation mythology, rituals, and lore. Compiling and comparing Maya creation mythology with that of the Borgia codices from highland central Mexico, Re-Creating Primordial Time is a significant contribution to the field of Mesoamerican studies and will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and comparative religions alike.
Author : Munro S. Edmonson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789300
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny written by Munro S. Edmonson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there. That they were in large part unsuccessful is evidenced by the survival of a number of documents written in Maya and preserved and added to by literate Mayas up to the 1830s. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is such a document, literally the history of Yucatan written by and for Mayas, and it contains much information not available from Spanish sources because it was part of an underground resistance movement of which the Spanish were largely unaware. Well known to Mayanists, The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is presented here in Munro S. Edmonson's English translation, extensively annotated. Edmonson reinterprets the book as literature and as history, placing it in chronological order and translating it as poetry. The ritual nature of Mayan history clearly emerges and casts new light on Mexican and Spanish acculturation of the Yucatecan Maya in the post-Classic and colonial periods. Centered in the city of Merida, the Chumayel provides the western (Xiu) perspective on Yucatecan history, as Edmonson's earlier book The Ancient Future of the Itza: The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin presented the eastern (Itza) viewpoint. Both document the changing calendar of the colonial period and the continuing vitality of pre-Columbian ritual thought down to the nineteenth century. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the survival of the long-count dating system down to the Baktun Ceremonial of 1618 (12.0.0.0.0). But there are others: the use of rebus writing, the survival of the tun until 1752, graphic if oblique accounts of Mayan ceremonial drama, and the depiction of the Spanish conquest as a long-term inter-Mayan civil war.
Author : George Byron Gordon
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Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel written by George Byron Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abau is the beginning of the count, because this was the katun when foreigners arrived. They came from the east when they arrived. Then Christianity also began ..." (Chilam Balam of Chumayel). The Mayan prophets were called "Chilam" or "Chilan," a title for the term "priest." They delivered the messages of the gods to the people, and thus were considered the fathers of mankind. Each community's Chilam Balam was written by its leader.€The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is a record of a rich and complex civilization with prophetic insights that are uncannily relevant to our world.
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684818450
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Popol Vuh written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most extraordinary works of the human imagination and the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life was first made accessible to the public 10 years ago. This new edition retains the quality of the original translation, has been enriched, and includes 20 new illustrations, maps, drawings, and photos.
Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Popol Vuh written by Lewis Spence and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521527316
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Ambivalent Conquests written by Inga Clendinnen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Peter Herman Sigal
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292798984
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (989 download)
Download or read book From Moon Goddesses to Virgins written by Peter Herman Sigal and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the preconquest Maya, sexuality was a part of ritual discourse and performance, and all sex acts were understood in terms of their power to create, maintain, and destroy society. As postconquest Maya adapted to life under colonial rule, they neither fully abandoned these views nor completely adopted the formulation of sexuality prescribed by Spanish Catholicism. Instead, they evolved hybridized notions of sexual desire, represented in the figure of the Virgin Mary as a sexual goddess, whose sex acts embodied both creative and destructive components. This highly innovative book decodes the process through which this colonization of Yucatan Maya sexual desire occurred. Pete Sigal frames the discussion around a series of texts, including the Books of Chilam Balam and the Ritual of the Bacabs, that were written by seventeenth and eighteenth century Maya nobles to elucidate the history, religion, and philosophy of the Yucatecan Maya communities. Drawing on the insights of philology, discourse analysis, and deconstruction, he analyzes the sexual fantasies, fears, and desires that are presented, often unintentionally, in the "margins" of these texts and shows how they illuminate issues of colonialism, power, ritual, and gender.
Author : Alexus McLeod
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498531393
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of the Ancient Maya written by Alexus McLeod and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates some of the central topics of metaphysics in the philosophical thought of the Maya people of Mesoamerica, particularly from the Preclassic through Postclassic periods. This book covers the topics of time, change, identity, and truth, through comparative investigation integrating Maya texts and practices—such as Classic Period stelae, Postclassic Codices, and Colonial-era texts such as the Popol Vuh and the books of Chilam Balam—and early Chinese philosophy.
Author : Frank Joseph
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591437830
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Atlantis and the Coming Ice Age written by Frank Joseph and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the parallels between the rise and fall of Atlantis, cultures in ancient Mesoamerica, and our modern civilization • Links the demise of Atlantis with the birth of the Olmec civilization in Mexico, the beginning of the first Egyptian dynasty, and the start of the Mayan Calendar • Reveals the Atlantean and Mayan prophecy of an eternal cycle of global creation, destruction, and renewal and how we are headed into a destructive phase • Shows how ancient prophecies correlate precisely with the latest climatology studies, the rising incidence of solar flares, and papers from Pentagon and NASA analysts With the passing of the Mayan Calendar’s end date we can now focus on the true significance of what the Maya and their predecessors were trying to convey to future civilizations. Frank Joseph reveals how the Mayan prophecy, symbolized by their calendar, was created through the combined genius of Atlantis and Lemuria and predicts an eternal cycle of global creation, destruction, and renewal. He shows how this cycle correlates precisely with scientific studies on glacial ice cores and predictions from the Hopi, the Incas, and the Scandinavian Norse as well as the visions of Edgar Cayce. He links the demise of Atlantis with the birth of the Olmec civilization in Mexico (the progenitors of the Maya), the beginning of the first Egyptian dynasty, and the start of the Mayan Calendar. Drawing on the latest climatology studies and papers from Pentagon and NASA analysts, he reveals that we are on the brink of a destructive phase in the global cycle of change as predicted by the Atlanteans and the Maya. The world’s current political, economic, and cultural deterioration is paralleled by unprecedented storms and record temperatures, massive solar flares, tectonic disturbances, and fissuring sea floors that could release dangerous reservoirs of methane gas into the environment--all of which signals we are headed into another ice age. Despite the Atlanteans’ greater understanding of the cyclical nature of catastrophes and of the human role in them, Joseph reveals the mistakes they made that played a crucial role in their civilization’s destruction. By recognizing the self-destructive patterns of Atlantis in our own civilization, we can learn from their mistakes to reestablish civilization’s cosmic balance before time runs out.
Author : Ital Iman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329755219
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (297 download)
Download or read book THE BOOK OF CHILAM BALAM OF THE RIVER CITY written by Ital Iman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclamation of an ancient culture:This Book is proofs miracle...
