2000 years of Mayan literature
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Berkeley
University of California Press
[2010]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Learning to read
- Early Mayan writing
- The skilled observer from Maxam
- From the time of gods to the time of lords
- Cormorant and her three sons
- Temple of the Sun-eyed shield
- Temple of the Tree of yellow corn
- Lady Shark fin and the evening star
- The rattlesnakes of the City of three stones
- Drawing and designing with words
- Graffiti
- The question of the beginning and end of time
- The mouth of the well of the Itza
- Writing on the pages of books
- Signs of the times
- Moon woman meets the stars
- The power of the great star
- Thunderstorm
- Diagrams of the days
- The alphabet arrives in the Lowlands
- The books of Chilam Balam
- Understanding the language of Suyua
- Song of the birth of the twenty days
- Conversations with madness
- The alphabet arrives in the Highlands
- A way to see the dawn of life
- Blood moon becomes a trickster
- The death of death
- The human work, the human design
- We saw it all, oh my sons
- The count of days
- Man of Rabinal
- Epilogue
- A chronological survey of Mayan literature, covering two thousand years, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to later works using the Roman alphabet