The Popol Vuh: a Maya book that survived as a copy of a copy

JAN 31 2021 · 12:00

The Popol Vuh: a Maya book that survived as a copy of a copy

The K'iche' Maya creation epic was written down in the Latin alphabet in the mid-16th century and survives only through a Dominican friar's early 18th-century transcription in Chichicastenango, now in Chicago.

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