Maya Creation Myths : Words and Worlds o
โ Timothy Knowlton; Anthony Aveni
๐ Library
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2010
๐ University Press of Colorado
๐ English
There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth." But around the close of the seventeenth century, an anonymous Maya scribe penned what he called u kahlay cab tu kinil, "the world history of the era," before Christianity came to the Peten. He collected numerous accounts of the cyclical destructi