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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: myths of the Popol vuh in cosmology, art, and ritual
  name:
    name part: Moyes, Holley
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Christenson, Allen J.
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sachse, Frauke
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cou
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Integrated and comparative approach to the Popol vuh, analyzing myths to elucidate ancient Maya past using archaeological and ethnographic information to shed light on the text. Combining interpretations of myths with analyses of archaeological, iconographic, epigraphic and ethnographic resources, demonstrates how mythologies contribute to the analysis and interpretation.
  table of contents: Introduction : the Popol vuh as a window into the mind of the ancient Maya / Allen J.Christenson and Frauke Sachse -- "For it is with words that we are sustained" : the Popol vuh and the creation of the First People / Allen J. Christenson -- Metaphors of maize : otherworld conceptualizations and the cultural logic of human existence in the Popol Vuh / Frauke Sachse -- The saqarik (dawn) and foundation rituals among the ancient K'iche' people / Iyaxel Cojtí Ren -- Archaeological evidence for the preclassic origins of the Maya creation story and the resurrection of the Maize God at Cahal Pech, Belize / Jaime J. Awe -- The dynamics of dynasty, power and creation myths embedded in architecture : a case study from Blue Creek, Belize / Thomas H. Guderjan and Colin Snide -- Sacrifice of the Maize God : re-creating creation in the main chamber of Actun Tunichil Muknal, Belize / Holley Moyes and Jaime J. Awe -- The transmutation of sustenance : a narrative of perennial reciprocity on classic Maya codex style ceramics / Barbara MacLeod -- Predatory birds of the Popol vuh / Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins -- The solar and lunar heroes in classic Maya art / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariego -- Beyond the "myth or politics" debate : reconsidering late preclassic sculpture, the principal bird deity, and the Popol vuh / Julia Guernsey -- Blowgunners and the great bird at Teotihuacan : Mesoamerican myths in a comparative perspective / Jesper Nielsen, Karl Taube, Christophe Helmke and Héctor Escobed.
  note: edited by Holley Moyes, Allen J. Christenson, and Frauke Sachse.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: nc-----
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Popol vuh
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  subject:
    topic: Quiché mythology
  subject:
    topic: Quiché Indians
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Quiché philosophy
  subject:
    geographic: Central America
    topic: Antiquities
  classification: F1465.P83 M97 2021
  classification: 299.7/8423
  identifier: 9781607323389
  identifier: 1607323389
  identifier: 9781646421985
  identifier: 1646421981
  identifier: 9781646421992
  identifier: 2021021117
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210514
    record change date: 20220104130002.0
    record identifier: in00004360538