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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 ...
XXV (2011). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropología e Historia and Asociación Tikal: 1061– 1073. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23; Knowlton, Timothy W., Maya Creation Myths: Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2010.
Folklore from Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. New York: Doubleday. Taube, Karl (1985), The Classic Maya Maize God: A Reappraisal. In Merle Greene Robertson and V. Fields (eds.), Fifth Palenque Round Table, 1983 (Mesa Redonda de Palenque Vol. VII), pp. 171-181. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute. Taube, Karl (1993), Aztec and Maya ...
"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.
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.
Fascinated by the mythology of the indigenous people of Guatemala, he wrote Leyendas de Guatemala (Legends of Guatemala). [72] This fictional work re-tells some of the Mayan folkloric stories of his homeland. Certain aspects of indigenous life were of a unique interest to Asturias. Commonly known as corn, maize is an integral part of Mayan culture.
Xibalba was a large palace and a number of individual structures or locations within Xibalba are described or mentioned in the Popol Vuh.Chief among these was the council place of the Lords, the five or six houses that served as the first tests of Xibalba, and the Xibalban ballcourt. [9]