...Rafael C. Alvarado; Aldo Ismael Barriente; Allison Margaret Bigelow Abstract The Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world...

... for Ethnohistory 2017 Popol Wuj Digitization Francisco Ximénez Maya-K’iche’ The Popol Wuj has continually captured the imagination of its readers, who have traditionally interpreted the text as a sacred “book” revealing pre-Judeo-Christian origin stories or the history of the K’iche’ Maya. Yet...

... by the Western world in the nineteenth century and has since been translated into several other languages. Like much Maya precontact writing, such as the Popol Wuj, it has a poetic form that uses complementary pairs of phrases and extensive repetition, evidence not only of a Maya aesthetic but also of its...

... places (“I could swear that I smelled the faint scent of copal on its pages” [226], he writes when visiting the Popol Wuj in Chicago), the book reflects his deep passion for the subject and, especially, the Tz’utujil people. Thus the Wayeb’ is incorporated into Easter. The five-day period...

... ( 3 ): 623 – 49 . Saffa Sarah n.d. Don Juan and the Virgen . Paper written for Language and Gender seminar , Tulane University , 2012 (on file at Tulane University) . Sam Colop E. 2006 Popol Wuj: Versión Poética . Guatemala : Cholsamaj . Sampeck Kathryn E...

..., such as the Popol Wuj or Memorial de Sololá, in its ‘‘absolute absence of Spanish influence’’ That characteristic alone leads to invaluable insight into Mayan worldviews.Van Akkeren surmises that the authors are from the Toj lineage, a group...

.../r781wh31g (accessed 13 September 2015 ). Vail Gabrielle 2015 “ Scribal Interaction and the Transmission of Traditional Knowledge: A Postclassic Maya Perspective .” Ethnohistory 62 , no. 3 : 445 – 68 . van Akkeren Ruud W. 2003 “ Authors of the Popol Wuj .” Ancient Mesoamerica...

... Luis Enrique Sam Colop ( 2012 : 53–54) translated the word baq as “bone” and “skull” in his edition of the Popol Wuj , his translation of this word describing Hun Hunahpu’s head in the calabash tree was consistent with that of earlier scholars. Numerous translators of this highland Maya document...

... 2011 Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture . New York : Thames and Hudson . Stross Brian 2007 “Eight Reinterpretations of Submerged Symbolism in the Mayan Popol Wuj.” Anthropological Linguistics 49 , nos. 3–4 : 388 – 423 . Taube Karl...

... in the accounts of the first humans in the K’iché Popol Wuj, as does the destruction of earlier generations of human beings. Although this reflects a linguistic and cultural tradition very different from that of Yuca- tán, incidents recorded in the Popol Wuj are often considered to represent...

... Maya elites or used by European friars anxious to evangelize the region. Maya elites transcribed their important sacred and historical works into their own languages, in works like the Popol Wuj, the Título de Totonicapán, and the Xajil lineage chronicles known as the Anales de los...

... Mesoamerican ideal of poorer, younger, and less powerful heroes overcoming the odds to defeat their wealthier, authoritative antagonists (Chinchilla Mazariegos 2013 : 701). The most famous manifestation of this theme appears in the K’iche’ Popol Wuj , in which the young Hero Twins cleverly navigate a series...