Jinetes del cielo maya
Subtitle: dioses y diosas de la lluvia en Xocén
By: Silvia Terán Contreras, Christian H. Rasmussen
Contributors: Heilskov Rasmussen, Christian; Gann, Thomas William Francis, 1867-1938
Publisher: Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Mérida, Yucatán, México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9789706981493
Description: Presenta los resultados de un estudio sobre los dioses de la lluvia, realizado por el pueblo de Xocén, Yucatán. Contiene la descripción completa y los rezos de la ceremonia agrícola conocida como Ch'a Cháak.
Notes: Appendix includes reprint of the first recorded observation of a Ch'a Cháak ceremony by Thomas Gann, originally published in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Congress of Americanists held at Washington, December 27-31, 1915 (Washington : [s.n.], 1917) under the title: Chachac, or rain ceremony, as practiced by the Maya of southern Yucatan and northern British Honduras.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-388).

In Spanish; with some texts in Mayan and an appendix in English.