Maya creation myths : words and worlds of the Chilam Balam / Timothy W. Knowlton.

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," which he chronicled events before Christianity came to the Peten. In this,...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Knowlton, Timothy W. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2010.
Series:	Mesoamerican worlds.
Subjects:	Maya mythology. Maya cosmology. Creation.