Overview

Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a primeval sea and ends with the radiant splendor of the Mayan lords who founded the Quiché kingdom in the Guatemalan highlands. Originally written in Mayan hieroglyphs, it was transcribed into the Roman alphabet in the sixteenth century. This new edition of Dennis Tedlock's unabridged, widely praised translation includes new notes and commentary, newly translated passages, newly deciphered hieroglyphs, and over forty new illustrations.

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Author:   Dennis Tedlock
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint:   Simon & Schuster Ltd
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9780684818450

ISBN 10:   0684818450
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   07 February 1996
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS Illustrations Preface Introduction Part One This is the beginning of the Ancient Word This is the account Now they planned the animals of the mountains And then the deer and birds were told Again there comes an experiment with the human work Then comes the naming of those who are the midmost seers Again there comes a humiliation This was when there was just a trace of early dawn Part Two Here is the beginning of the defeat and destruction of the day of Seven Macaw And here is the shooting of Seven Macaw by the two boys And here are the deeds of Zipacna Now this is the defeat and death of Zipacna And the third to magnify himself is the second son of Seven Macaw, named Earthquake Part Three And now we shall name the name of the father of Hunahpu and Xbalanque And these are the lords over everything And now for the messengers of One and Seven Death After that One and Seven Hunahpu left And One and Seven Hunahpu went inside Dark House And here is the account of a maiden And after the maiden was noticed by her father And when Blood Moon came to the mother of One Monkey and One Artisan And this is their birth; we shall tell of it here And then they sang, they played, they drummed And now they began to act out their self-revelation So now there was fire in their hearts Happy now, they went to play ball at the court They went down to Xibalba First they entered Dark House And after that, the boys next entered Razor House And now they entered Cold House So next they entered Jaguar House So next they entered the midst of the fire Now they were put inside Bat House And here it is: the epitaph, the death of Hunahpu and Xbalanque This is the making of the oven And on the fifth day they reappeared And they came to the lords And this is the sacrifice of little Hunahpu by Xbalanque And then they named their names And this is their grandmother, crying and calling out in front of the ears of green corn And here their father is put back together by them Part Four And here is the beginning of the conception of humans These are the names of the first people who were made and modeled And then their wives and women came into being And this is our root, we who are the Quiche people And this is the name of the mountain where they went They walked in crowds when they arrived at Tulan, and there was no fire When they came away from Tulan Zuyua And then they came away, just camping on the road And then Tohil, along with Auilix and Hacauitz, spoke to them And here is the dawning and showing of the sun, moon, and stars parAnd there began their song named Camacu And here they burn their copal And then comes the killing of the tribes First the tribes tried to plan the defeat of Tohil, Auilix, and Hacauitz And they sent the two of them, named Lust Woman and Wailing Woman And here is the joining together of all the tribes And then Jaguar Quitze, Jaguar Night, Not Right Now, and Dark Jaguar had a plan And these are the ones who were there: Jaguar Quitze, Jaguar Night, Not Right Now, and Dark Jaguar Now this is where we shall tell about the death of Jaguar Quitze, Jaguar Night, Not Right Now, and Dark Jaguar Part Five And then they remembered what had been said about the east And then they came before the lord named Nacxit And then they came to a place where they founded a citadel named Thorny Place And Bearded Place is the name of the mountain of their citadel And then they got up and came to the citadel of Rotten Cane And here are the titles of the lords who led the Cauecs And now these are the lords who led the Greathouses And now these are the Lord Quiches And there were also two lineages of Zaquic lords Then splendor and majesty grew among the Quiche And here are the names of the sixth generation of lords After that came the sentries And now we shall name the names of the houses of the gods And this is the cry of their hearts And here are the generations, the sequences of lordships And here shall appear the faces, one by one, of each of the Quiche lords And here are those of the Greathouses And now these are for the Lord Quiches And there are three Masters of Ceremonies in all This is enough about the being of Quiche Notes and Comments Orthography Abbreviations Mayan Poetics The Mayan Calendar Notes and Comments Glossary Bibliography Index

Reviews

William Arrowsmith, Robert W. WoodruffProfessor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emory UniversityDennis Tedlock's splendid version...[is] the work of a brilliant anthropologist who is also a true poet of performance, himself trained by a native Quiche master....Superb notes and glossary...An event of quite exceptional importance.

Vine Deloria, Jr. author of Custer Died for Your Sins Tedlock's translation is sensitive, precise, and illuminating. It will greatly help the Popol Vuh achieve its rightful place as a masterpiece of religious writing, familiar to all those who seek a message that transcends ordinary concerns.

Author Information

Dennis Tedlock is McNulty Professor of English and Research Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the coeditor of American Anthropologist and the author of several books.

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