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Author:
Bassie-Sweet, Karen, 1952-
Title:
Maya sacred geography and the creator deities / Karen Bassie-Sweet.
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
xxii, 359 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Popol vuh.
Maya mythology.
Maya cosmology.
Creation--Mythology--Guatemala.
Notes:
Series statement from publisher's website. Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-349) and index.
Contents:
Summary and conclusions. Corn -- Agricultural events and ceremonies -- World view -- Water, wind, and divination -- The thunderbolt triad -- The paternal grandfather -- The sons of the creator grandparents -- The marriage of one Ixim/one Hunahpu and Ixik/Lady Bone Water -- The paternal grandmother and her daughters-in-law -- The twins -- The maternal grandfather and his virgin daughters -- Sacred landscape -- The landscape of the night sky -- The core myth -- Summary and conclusions.
Series:
[Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 257]
ISBN:
0806139579 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780806139579 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2008012966
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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