Popol Vuh
Subtitle: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Contributors: Delia Goetz (Translator); Sylvanus G. Morley (Translator)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: September 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780806122663
Subjects: Anthropology; Indigenous peoples; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1500 to c 1600; Native American Anthropology; Literary Criticism; History - General History; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Guatemala; Reference; Latin America - Central America
First sentence: When the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards was completed, Hernan Cortes, who had heard of the existence of rich lands inhabited by a number of tribes in Guatemala, decided to send Pedro de Alvarado, the most fearless of his captains, to subdue them.