2000 years of Mayan literature / / Dennis Tedlock ; with new translations and interpretations by the author.

• VerfasserIn: Tedlock, Dennis, 1939-
• Place / Publishing House: Berkeley : : University of California Press,, [2010]; 2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English; Mayan
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (481 pages) :; illustrations, maps

Table of Contents

• Learning to read
• Early Mayan writing
• The skilled observer from Maxam
• From the time of gods to the time of lords
• Cormorant and her three sons
• Temple of the Sun-eyed shield
• Temple of the Tree of yellow corn
• Lady Shark fin and the evening star
• The rattlesnakes of the City of three stones
• Drawing and designing with words
• Graffiti
• The question of the beginning and end of time
• The mouth of the well of the Itza
• Writing on the pages of books
• Signs of the times
• Moon woman meets the stars
• The power of the great star
• Thunderstorm
• Diagrams of the days
• The alphabet arrives in the Lowlands
• The books of Chilam Balam
• Understanding the language of Suyua
• Song of the birth of the twenty days
• Conversations with madness
• The alphabet arrives in the Highlands
• A way to see the dawn of life
• Blood moon becomes a trickster
• The death of death
• The human work, the human design
• We saw it all, oh my sons
• The count of days
• Man of Rabinal
• Epilogue.