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Maya creation myths words and worlds of the Chilam Balam
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Title
Maya creation myths [electronic resource] : words and worlds of the Chilam Balam / Timothy W. Knowlton.
ISBN
1607320215
9781607320210
1607320207 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781607320203 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 231 p. :) ill. ;
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Archeology and Anthropology Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2012
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-222) and index.
Contents
Aspects of ancient Maya intellectual culture
Clandestine compilations and the colonial dialogue
Creation and apocalypse : the Katun 11 Ahau myth
Theogony, cosmology, and language in the ritual of the angels
The creation of the first people and the origin of suffering
The calendar and the catechism
"In whatever way it is chronicled".
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