Today it can be read online as pdf and through the ios and android apps. A spanish priest discovered the popol vuh manuscript in the early 1700s. The popol vuh is the most important source of information on the mythology of the ancient maya. It is based in mexico but it has subsidiaries throughout the spanishspeaking world. Download the popol vuh in full text here, english pdf ebook. Popol vuh is one among a very few full text books that exists from the mesoamericans cultures. Elsewhere in the text it is referred to as popol vuh line 8278. According to tedlock, in the popol vuh, the death of the four hundred boys corresponds to earlyevening settings of these stars. Ebook popol vuh antiguas leyendas del quiche coleccin. Popol vuh is a text recounting the mythology and history of the k. After copying the text, he translated it into spanish. Otras traducciones del libro maya son las del austriaco carl scherzer 1857. On august 22, 2012, the popol vuh was declared intangible cultural heritage of guatemala by the guatemalan ministry of culture.
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