Sacred books, sacred languages
Subtitle: two thousand years of ritual and religious Maya literature : proceedings of the 8th European Maya Conference, Madrid, November 25-30, 2003
By: Rogelio Valencia Rivera and Geneviève Le Fort (eds.).
Contributors: Valencia Rivera, Rogelio; Le Fort, Geneviève
Series: Acta Mesoamericana -- v. 18
Publisher: A. Saurwein
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Markt Schwaben, Germany
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9783931419141
Subjects: Maya literature; Congresses; History and criticism; Maya Manuscripts; Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian); Maya mythology; Mayan languages; Mayas; Religion
Other titles: Two thousand years of ritual and religious Maya literature :; Proceedings of the 8th European Maya Conference, Madrid, November 25-30, 2003; 8th European Maya Conference, Madrid, November 25-30, 2003; 2000 years of ritual and religious Maya literature; Eighth European Maya Conference, Madrid, November 25-30, 2003
Notes: Conference proceedings.

English and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Art of the Maya epitaph: the genre of posthumous biographies in the Late Classic Maya inscriptions ; title: Alexandre Tokovinine --; title: Los sujetos novelísticos y las palabras obscenas: los mitos, los cuentos y las anéctodas en los textos mayas sobre la cerámica del período clásico  -- Dimitri Beliaev, Albert Davletshin; title: A new look at linguistic interaction in the lowlands as a background for the study of Maya codices  -- Søren Wichmann; title: Fire drilling, bloodletting, and sacrifice: yearbearer rituals in the Maya and Borgia group codices  -- Gabrielle Vail, Christine M. Hernández; title: The hunting scenes in the Madrid Codex: planner for hunting rituals  -- Pierre R. Colas; title: "Sib-ten a w-áalak'-o'ob..." ("regálanos tus hijos, tus criados..."): oraciones dirigidas al "Protector de los animales" (Sip)  -- Marianne Gabriel; title: De extirpatio codicis yucatanensis: the 1607 colonial confiscation of a Maya sacred book: new interpretations on the origins and provenience of the Madrid Codex  -- John F. Chuchiak IV; title: La voz de los antepasados en la poesía k'iche'  -- Michele E. Craveri; title: Two Maya prayers: microcosm of cultural and linguistic contact  -- Lisa D. Bennett; title: El lenguaje sagrado contemporáneo: comentarios sobre la definición de los géneros en la tradición oral maya  -- Aurore M. Becquelin; title: El origen prehispánico de las profecías katúnicas mayas coloniales: antecedentes clásicos de las profecías de 12 Ajaw y 10 Ajaw -- Alfonso Lacadena.