Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classic Maya Ceramics

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“…The surviving manuscript was copied in the original K'iche', as well as translated into Spanish at the beginning of the eighteenth century by the Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez, and was bound with a grammar, catechism, and confessional guide to assist evangelizers (Quiroa 2011). Many characters and episodes built into the Popol Wuj narrative have demonstrably deep roots in pre-Hispanic Maya culture (e.g., Coe 1978), and scholars continue to reference this source regularly when reconstructing ancient Maya civilization (Chinchilla Mazariegos 2017;Moyes et al 2021). The Popol Wuj is unusual in its relative lack of direct references to Christian narratives in its origin narratives when compared with other K'iche' títulos of the time (Sparks 2019:198).…”