Hi copelandkrn!!!
I found online sources that will help you understanding the Popol-Vuh.
The first one came from the University of Texas, Department of
Anthropology. In he course "INDIANS OF MEXICO AND GUATEMALA" page, the
professor Brian Stross recommends the following lecture for the
"Quiche and Popol Vuh" topic:
"Hi copelandkrn!!!
I found several online sources that will help you understanding the
Popol-Vuh.
The first one came from the University of Texas, Department of
Anthropology. In he course "INDIANS OF MEXICO AND GUATEMALA" page, the
professor Brian Stross recommends the following lecture for the
"Quiche and Popol Vuh" topic:
"Hi copelandkrn!!!
I found several online sources that will help you understanding the
Popol-Vuh.
The first one came from the University of Texas, Department of
Anthropology. In he course "INDIANS OF MEXICO AND GUATEMALA" page, the
professor Brian Stross recommends the lecture called "POPOL VUH" for
the "Quiche and Popol Vuh" topic, I will show you a part of this work:
"Part I Part I of Popol Vuh consists of two stories.
• l. A narration of the failure of the gods to create earthly
beings
who will adore, obey, and sustain them (three chapters).
• 2. tells how two mysterious twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque
(foreshadowers of man), destroy an arrogant celestial being,
Vucub-Caquix, and his two sons,
Zipacna and Cabracan, who refused to adore, obey, and sustain their
creators.
The first story of Part I opens with a description of what it was like
before the first creation began. "All was empty..., all was in
silence..., all was motionless...there was only the sky and the sea".
In the sea, surrounded with light, hidden under green feathers,
was
Gucumatz. In the sky was "the Heart of Heaven, or God- as he is
called."
All was in suspense
Then came the word, like a lightning bolt it ripped through the
sky,
penetrated the waters, and fertilized the minds of the Earth-Water
Deities, Tepeu and Gucumatz
Then the creator couple said "let it be done", and it was done:
The
earth emerged from the sea; plants put forth shoots; wild animals
came to
be.
And then, so as to have somebody to worship them, the Gods made three
frustrated attempts to create mankind; first out of animals, then out
of mud, and finally out of wood. The Wood men creation was approved by
the diviners Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, who used the coral bean for
divination when they were consulted by the Creator Gods. The wood men
were killed off too, however, and their descendants are the monkeys
who look like men.
The second story opens with a Lucifer figure named Vucub-Caquix, who
had two sons; Zipacna and Cabracan, both of whom are as vain as their
father, and both of whom made the earth shake and tremble as they
burrowed under mountains.
(Zipacana = Mountain Maker ; Cabracan = Mountain Breaker )
The Hero Twins (Hunahpu and Xbalanque), out hunting, shoot Vucub
Caquix in the jaw with a blowgun, while he is in a nance tree eating
nance fruit. Angered, Vucub Caquix tears off Hunahpu's arm.
To recover the arm, the twins pose as dentists, go to Vucub Caquix'
house, and dupe him into letting them pull his teeth and replace them
with white corn kernels. While the replacement was being done,
Hunahpu recovered his arm. With his new corn dentures, Vucub Caquix
no longer looked like a lord, so he died in poverty.
Then the Hero Twins set out to kill Zipacna. Zipacna had himself
just finished killing "the 4OO young men". He had feigned death when
the four hundred young men tried to do him in by having him dig a hole
in the ground so that they could plant a pole on him, but he escaped,
and while they were celebrating his death, they were then crushed by
Zipacna, after which they had
became stars (the Pleiades) in the sky. So now the Hero Twins made a
crab to lure Zipacna, who found the crab and was killed in its embrace
of death.
Next, the Hero Twins poisoned a bird with white earth, and when
Cabracan ate the bird, he died."
As you can see this is a summary of the part I and it continues in the
same way with the rest. You can read the complete summary in the
following page:
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/stross/ant322m_files/popolvuh.htm
You can also see a review of the book "Popol Vuh: The Definitive
Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods
and Kings", translated with commentary by Dennis Tedlock. This review
went done by Eloise Hart:
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/36-86-7/am-elo2.htm
You can buy this book at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684818450/ref=ase_jaguarbooksA/002-4555622-6050430
Also there is an online version ot other recommended book:
"The Popol Vuh - The Sacred Book of The Mayas - The Book of The
Community"
English Version by Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G. Morley (© 1950 by the
University of Oklahoma Press). Translation by Adrián Recinos .
This is an english version of the Popol Vuh. You tell me that you had
read it but I don´t know if you keep the book with you, so may be this
link is useful:
http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/7286/popolvuhmain.html#anchor243541
More help can be found at the website "Cities of the Ancient Maya -
Mayan Archeology Homepage":
http://www.isourcecom.com/maya/
At this site in the "Books" page and in the Popol Vuh section of this
page, you have a very nice and complete information related to this
ancient book and the Quiché culture, including a summary of the Popol
Vuh and comments:
http://www.isourcecom.com/maya/books/popolvuh.htm
This link may also helps you:
"Popol Vuh - A Creation Story":
http://www.jaguarpaw.com/Popol.html
At the Villanova University's website, I found the following pages,
that may help you in some way:
"Links on the Ancient Maya":
http://www90.homepage.villanova.edu/lowell.gustafson/Maya/links.htm
"Translation Project; Resources", a pdf file when you will find
resource material for helping in translation of mayan glyphs, periods,
numerals, calendar, etc.:
http://www90.homepage.villanova.edu/lowell.gustafson/Maya/Resources.pdf
I hope this helps you, if you need a clarification please post a
request for it, the same if you need more help or have troubles with
the links. I am also capable to give you some sources in spanish if
you want.
Best regards.
livioflores-ga |
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