Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book of The Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings
Carlos Fuentes Popol Vuhis one of the great books about the creation of the world. It is the Mayan Bible.Los Angeles TimesThe volume is required reading for everyone seriously interested in Native American literature or in Meso-American cultural history. Its publication is a major event.William Arrowsmith, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emory University Dennis Tedlock's splendid version...[is] the work of a brilliant anthropologist who is also a true "poet of performance," himself trained by a native Quiché master....Superb notes and glossary...An event of quite exceptional importance.Vine Deloria, Jr. author ofCuster Died for Your SinsTedlock's translation is sensitive, precise, and illuminating. It will greatly help thePopol Vuhachieve its rightful place as a masterpiece of religious writing, familiar to all those who seek a message that transcends ordinary concerns.