Popul Vuh (no, not the kraut "band")

[Ted Samsel]

JW sez:
> 
> 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. 

There's a "not-too-dumbed-down" animated version of this that's quite
nice to watch that uses the glyphs & some of the stele iconography.

And all this sad music needs to be swept into the corner. Put on some
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks (or w/ The Acoustic Warriors) and crack
open some vin ordinaire or some Burgermeister and get some take out
from the Doggie Diner.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
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