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This book includes four captivating manuscripts:
Maya Mythology: Captivating Maya Myths of Gods, Goddesses and Legendary Creatures
Aztec Mythology: Captivating Aztec Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures
Inca Mythology: Captivating Inca Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures
Central American Mythology: Captivating Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures of Ancient Mexico and Central America
In the first part of this book, youll find the following Maya myths and topics covered
Two Creation Myths
The Downfall of Seven Macaw
The Boyhood Deeds of Hunahpu and Xbalanque
Ballgames in Xibalba
The Deaths and Resurrections of Hunahpu and Xbalanque
The Man Who Became a Buzzard
How the Sun and Moon Became Man and Wife
Rabbit Gets His Drink
And many more!
In the second part of this book, youll find the following Aztec myths and topics covered
The Legend of the Suns
The Deeds of Mixcoatl
The Origin of Maize and the Creation of Pulque
The Fall of Xochiquetzal
The Fate of Souls
Huitzilopochtli and the Founding of Tenochtitlan
Huemac Plays the Ball Game
And many more!
In the third part of this book, youll find the following Inca myths and topics covered
Stories of the Gods
Inca Political Myths
Five Andean Folktales and an Inca Play
And much, much more!
In the fourth part of this book, youll find the following Central American myths and topics covered
Olocupinele Creates the World (Dule/Cuna, Panama)
Watakame and the Great Flood (Wixritari/Huichol, Mexico)
Yomomuli and the Talking Tree (Yoeme/Yaqui, Mexico)
How the Sea Was Made (Cabcar, Costa Rica)
Mother Scorpions Country (Miskito, Nicaragua)
The Childhood of the Sun and the Moon (qne-a tnya-e/Chatino, Mexico)
The Invisible Hunters (Miskito, Nicaragua)
The King of the Peccaries (Bribri, Costa Rica)
How Opossum Stole Fire (Mazatec, Mexico)
Uncle Rabbit and Uncle Tiger (Nicaragua)
And much, much more!

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A Captivating Guide to Maya Mythology, Aztec Mythology, Inca Mythology, and Central American Myths

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Section: 1 Maya Mythology

Captivating Maya Myths of Gods, Goddesses and Legendary Creatures

Introduction

The story of Maya culture extends in an arc that reaches back nearly four thousand years, with the first small settlements being established around 2000 BCE , through to the zenith of Maya civilization between about 250 and 900 CE , and ending with the gradual collapse of Maya cities beginning in the tenth century, which became complete with the Spanish incursions into southern Central America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Unlike their Aztec cousins to the north, the Maya were able to hold out against the Spanish until the late seventeenth century, and since that time have been more successful than their cousins at maintaining their languages, many of their traditional religious practices, and other important aspects of their culture, despite colonial rapacity and influences.

Unfortunately, the amount of information about ancient Maya myth and culture that still survives today is shockingly small. Under Spanish rule, all but four Maya codices were destroyed, and early Spanish historians and chroniclers such as Diego de Landa (1524-1579)who as Bishop of Yucatan oversaw the burning of Maya booksdeclined to record Maya myths and other literary forms, although their writings do relate quite a bit about Maya culture, society, and religious practices.

What little Maya myth we have today is recorded in two sources: the Popol Vuh , the main book of K'iche' Maya myth; and the Books of Chilam Balam , which were compiled by Yucatec Maya redactors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The latter are named after the places where they were compiled (e.g. Chilam Balam of Chumayel ; Chilam Balam of Mani ).

The Kiche are one of several branches of Maya culture. They took up residence in the highlands of what are now Guatemala and El Salvador after the fall of Chichen Itza, probably sometime in the early thirteenth century. Today, they live in Guatemala. The Popol Vuh continues to be a touchstone for the Kiche of Guatemala today, as well as for other Maya peoples, and was declared the national book of Guatemala in 1971.

Compiled around 1550, the Popol Vuh is an important sacred text preserving ancient epic tales of the creation of the world, a mythical early history of the Maya people and their culture, and the adventures of Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the Hero Twins who overcome monsters and giants, play the sacred ballgame against the Lords of Death themselves, and eventually are transformed into the sun and moon.

The Books of Chilam Balam (Books of the Jaguar Priest) are written in a Yucatec Maya dialect, and reflect the culture and traditions of the Maya from the Yucatan Peninsula. There are nine extant Books of Chilam Balam , all of which were compiled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Maya redactors. The three most important of these are the books in Chumayel, Tzizimin, and Mani. While the Popol Vuh is a coherent set of epic myths, the Chilam Balam books are more miscellanies or commonplace books, containing varied collections of ancient myth, history, ritual, almanacs, and other information, including prophecies about the advent of the Spanish. Looking at the myths that the Books of Chilam Balam contain gives us a hint of the variety of ancient Maya traditions and beliefs, as these Yucatec myths are substantially different from those preserved in the Kiche Popol Vuh .

Although the Yucatec and Kiche Maya traditions are different from one another, neither were isolated from other Mesoamerican cultures. For example, the K'iche' and Yucatec pantheons both include an analog of the Aztec Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent, who is called Gucumatz by the K'iche' and Kukulcan by the Yucatec Maya. However, while the Plumed Serpent functions as a creator god for the K'iche', he does not appear in the Yucatec creation myth at all.

Another point of contact with Aztec myth that differs between the K'iche' and Yucatec Maya is that the Yucatec creation myth conceptualizes the material of the earth as having been made out of the body of a crocodilian creature called Itzam Cab Ain (lit. Iguana Earth Crocodile), which recalls Aztec myths about Cipactli and Tlaltecuhtli, both of which were water-dwelling monsters who were turned into the earth by the gods. A monster such as this is entirely absent from the K'iche' tales of creation.

Myths from the Yucatec and Kiche traditions make up the bulk of the tales presented in this book, which also contains other Maya folktales. The first section of this volume is devoted to creation myths, one from the Popol Vuh and the other from the Books of Chilam Balam . The second section relates the tales of Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the Hero Twins from the Popol Vuh , and the third section contains three traditional Maya folktales unrelated to either the Popol Vuh or the Chilam Balam sources.

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