Incantations by Mayan women
By: Fathermothers of the book :  Ámber Past with Xun Okotz and Xpetra Ernándes.
Contributors: Past, Amber.; Okotz, Xun.; Ernándes, Xpetra.; Taller Lenateros.
Edition: [2nd ed.]
Publisher: Taller Leñateros
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chiapas, Mexico
Language: eng; myn
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Artists' books; Mayan literature; Tzotzil poetry
Work titles: Conjuros y ebriedades. English.
Notes: Text in English and partly in Tzotzil.

"The three-dimensional cover, cast from recycled cardboard, corn silk, and coffee, represents the Mayan earth goddess Kaxail. Her eyes open onto handmade endpaper blackened by soot and studded with palm fronds. . . . Incantations is the product of a 20-year effort to compile a kind of modern Mayan codex in which art and language marry to commemorate the most fundamental beliefs of a culture that traces its roots back more than 1,000 years. Measuring approximately 10 inches square, the 295-page book contains dozens of silk-screen illustrations based on ancient Mayan folk-art patterns but painted by contemporary women, many of whom have never before held a brush. "--publisher's website.

Issued in box.

Stated 1st edition consisted of 200 numbered copies. A "Second Edition" then issued, unnumbered and unsigned.