Popol Vuh (Quiche text with French translation)
Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg (ed./trans.)
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Description
The Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg, a French priest and Americanist, edited the Popol Vuh with the Quiche Maya text and his French translation in 1861. He had found the manuscript, copied in Spanish America, in Guatemala. The Popol Vuh is the creation epic of the Quiche Maya.
It tells how the gods made the world and mankind, first of mud, then of wood, then of maize. It follows the Hero Twins through ball games and trials in Xibalba, the underworld. Brasseur's edition was a pioneering act of rescue. The book is often called the American Genesis, and this form, Quiche with French, preserves an early state of its study.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg (ed./trans.) |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1.5 MB |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Tower of Babel archive |