The Maya and their sacred narratives
Subtitle: text and context in Maya mythologies ; proceedings of the 12th European Maya Conference, Geneva, December 7-8, 2007
By: Genevieve Le Fort ... [et al.], editors
Contributors: Le Fort, Geneviève
Series: Acta Mesoamericana -- v. 20; Acta Mesoamericana -- v. 20.
Publisher: Verlag Anton Saurwein
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Markt Schwaben, Germany
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9783931419165
Subjects: Mayan languages; Maya Manuscripts; Writing; Religion; Congresses; Mayas; Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian); Maya mythology
Other titles: Text and context in Maya mythologies
Notes: In English, with 3 contributions in Spanish; abstracts in English and Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Comparar las mitologías  -- Alain Monnier; title: Myth or (and, along with) history  -- Philippe Borgeaud and Raphaël Gardiol; title: The many faces of Chaahk : exploring the role of a complex and fluid entity within myth, religion and politics  -- Carlos Pallán Gayol; title: The Maya maize god and the mythic origins of dance  -- Karl Taube; title: Imagen, texto y contexto ceremonial del "ritual de los ángeles" : viejos problemas y nuevas respuestas sobre la narrativa sagrada en los libros de Chilam Balam  -- Erik Velásquez García; title: The birth of the number twenty in the Dresden Codex  -- Carl D. Callaway; title: Cords and crocodilians : creation mythology in late postclassic Maya iconography and texts  -- Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández; title: Composition and artistry in a classical Yucatecan Maya creation myth : prehispanic ritual narratives and their colonial transmission  -- Timothy Knowlton; title: "Who Shall Be our Sustainer?" : sacred myth and the spoken word  -- Allen J. Christenson; title: The grand Chorti' epic : the story of the Kumix Angel  -- Kerry Hull; title: Jaguar slayer and stone trap man : a Tzotzil myth reconsidered  -- H. Edwin M. Braakhuis; title: Las cuevas, espacios míticos entre los mayas de hoy  -- Fátima Tec Pool; title: Salt, sites and "mythology" : cultural memory in San Mateo Ixtatán (Huehuetenango, Guatemala) from pre-Hispanic to modern times  -- Lars Frühsorge and Ulrich Wölfel; title: The divine rite of kings : an analysis of classic Maya impersonation statements  -- Julie Nehammer Knub, Simone Thun and Christophe Helmke; title: Deities of transition : death gods among the classic Maya -- Pierre Robert Colas.