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"Legend of El Sombrerón" is the title of one of the short stories in Guatemalan Nobel-prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias' 1930 collection Legends of Guatemala. In 1950, El Sombrerón became the subject of an eponymous film, one of the first films shot in Guatemala.
Leyendas de Guatemala (Legends of Guatemala, 1930) was the first book to be published by Nobel-prizewinning author Miguel Ángel Asturias. The book is a re-telling of Maya origin stories from Asturias's homeland of Guatemala. It reflects the author's study of anthropology and Central American indigenous civilizations, undertaken in France, at ...
The oldest surviving written account of Popol Vuh (ms c. 1701 by Francisco Ximénez, O.P.). Popol Vuh (also Popul Vuh or Pop Vuj) [1] [2] is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, one of the Maya peoples who also inhabit the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, as well as areas of Belize, Honduras and El Salvador.
In Guatemala, the legend is more common in Guatemala City, Antigua Guatemala (the old colonial capital) and the eastern departments of the country. [14] The most common variant in these areas is that where the spirit has the face of a horse. [14] In Guatemala the Siguanaba is often said to appear to men who are unfaithful in order to punish ...
A Commentary on the Qʼeqchiʼ Myth of Sun and Moon. Thesis, Leiden University (online). Braakhuis, H.E.M. (2014), Challenging the Lightnings: San Bartolo's West Wall and the Maize Hero Myth. Wayeb Notes No. 46. Bruce, Robert D. (1974), El Libro de Chʼan Kʼin. Mexico: INAH. Burns, Allan F. (1983), Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya. Austin ...
He was eventually executed, but returned to life in the form of a judge named Don Ximon, who fought to give land back to the native people of Guatemala. [4] Another legend states that Maximón was hired by traveling fishermen to protect the virtue of their wives. Instead, Maximón disguised himself and slept with all of them. [3]
Guatemalan folklore (15 P) H. Honduran folklore (1 C, 4 P) M. ... Works based on Latin American myths and legends (2 P) Pages in category "Latin American folklore"