Los nawales
Subtitle: The ancient ones : merchants, wives and lovers : the creation story of MaXimón
By: by Vincent James Stanzione ; illustrated by Angelika Bauer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Vincent James Stanzione and Angelika Bauer
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Guatemala?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9789929688698
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Maya mythology; Creation; Mythology; Maximón (Legendary character); Mayas; Religion
Other titles: Ancient ones :; Creation story of MaXimón
Notes: "Vincent Stanzione is a master storyteller, and in his new book, Los Nawales: The Ancient Ones, he tells the ancestral story of the Tz’utujil Maya market women, their wandering merchant men and their eventual need to create a protector and guide: Rilaj Mam-Maximón, the Beloved Ancestor [Maximón, also called San Simón, the half-god, half-saint originating from an Indian community on the shores of Lake Atitlán]. By imitating the voice of Maya storytellers, Stanzione seeks a blurring of oral and written genres with ethnographic interpretation that is still bound to empirical knowledge in Mesoamerican traditions. In so doing, he has preserved an important story for descendants of the Nawales – the Tz’utujil Maya – in the form of written text that will take them back to an ancestral past, which at this moment in time is slowly being forgotten."--http://www.revuemag.com/2017/02/book-alert-los-nawales-the-ancient-ones/ (viewed July 21, 2017).

"Stanzione is an anthropologist and a researcher specializing in ancient and contemporary Maya religion. He has lived in the Guatemalan Highlands since 1990 and worked alongside the Tz’utujil Maya in Santiago Atitlán for over 20 years. Other notable publications include Rituals of Sacrifice: Walking the Face of the Earth on the Sacred Path of the Sun (2000); Mayan Gods and Goddesses (2005) and The Sacred Count of Days (2006)."--http://www.revuemag.com/2017/02/book-alert-los-nawales-the-ancient-ones/ (viewed July 21, 2017).

"This first edition of Los Nawales: The Ancient Ones is published by the author and illustrator"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306).

Text in English.