Popol Vuh - A Sacred Book of the Maya

Zusatztext [Popol Vuh] contains a rich array of creation myth! pourquoi stories! and trixster tales...Dramatically lit paintings by Luis Garay will engage curiosity... Informationen zum Autor Victor Montejo is a distinguished Zapotec Maya / Guatemalan anthropologist, author and professor in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California at Davis who, after a very long period in exile, returned for a time to Guatemala to work for indigenous rights. He has also written White Flower: A Maya Princess / Blanca Flor: una princesa Maya for Groundwood. He lives in Davis, California. Klappentext Mayan civilization once flourished in what is today Guatemala and the Yucatan. The Mayan sacred book the Popol Vuh tells of the creation of the universe, the world of gods and demi-gods and the creation of mankind. Zusammenfassung Mayan civilization once flourished in what is today Guatemala and the Yucatan. The Mayan sacred book the Popol Vuh tells of the creation of the universe! the world of gods and demi-gods and the creation of mankind.

Product details

• Authors: Victor Montejo, Montejo Victor
• Assisted by: Luis Garay (Illustration), Victor Montejo (Reader / Narrator), David Unger (Translation), David (Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois) Unger (Translation), Unger David (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 9
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2009
• EAN: 9780888999214
• ISBN: 978-0-88899-921-4
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 255 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; People & places (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Places / General