reading/hearing: + M&D

[Jesse Wick]

Bill Burns wrote:

Can anyone suggest some good reading in comparative religion/mythology?

If you've never read the Popol Vuh (Mayan mythology), it's got some pretty 
heavy old tales in it - a creation myth with what amounts, for lack of a 
better comparison, to a sort of Mayan version of the Gilgamesh-epic attached 
to it. I had a copy somewhere but can't seem to put my mitts on it right now. 
After the mythology, it goes into the oral history of a group of Guatemalan 
Mayans. (Actually I guess the whole thing is their oral history, which would 
have begun with Creation, natch.) Be sure to get a translation though -- those 
pictographs are damn hard to read. 

Also, can someone refresh my memory as to when M&D is supposed to be on the 
shelves at a retailer near me? It's March or something, isn't it? 

JW

P.S.  This appears to be only my second post to the list, please pardon my 
rudeness for not "introducing myself" the first time, but I've been lurking 
for a few weeks & thought I'd sent something earlier.