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Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the Maya

VHS
60 minutes
F1465 .P8213 1988

Around the year 1550, not long after the Spanish conquest of the Maya, in what is now Guatemala, an anonymous Maya noble of the once powerful Quiche state, well-versed in the ancient written and oral traditions of his people, committed to writing their legendary history of the creation of the world. One of the original copies survives today in the Newberry Library in Chicago. The POPUL VUH is the longest existing poem in any American Indian language. It stands as an extraordinary monument to the accomplishment of a remarkably gifted people, and its ethical, spiritual, and philosophical themes in many ways underlie the traditions of Native Americans throughout the Americas.

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