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Maya Sculpture of Copan: The Iconography

By Claude-Francois Baudez

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Hardcover:

9780806125947 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $69.95

Paperback:

9780806148601 | Reprint edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, July 1, 2015), cover price $29.95

Religions of Mesoamerica

By David Carrasco

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9781478607403 | 2 edition (Waveland Pr Inc, August 13, 2013), cover price $25.95

Maya Daykeeping: Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala

Product Description: In Maya Daykeeping, three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala - examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Titles of the Lords of Totonicapan - dating to 1685, 1722, and 1855, are transcribed in K'iche or Kaqchikel side-by-side with English translations...read more

By Christian M. Prager (editor), Frauke Sachse (editor) and John M. Weeks (editor)

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9780870819339 | Univ Pr of Colorado, May 30, 2009, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In Maya Daykeeping, three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala - examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Titles of the Lords of Totonicapan - dating to 1685, 1722, and 1855, are transcribed in K'iche or Kaqchikel side-by-side with English translations.

Paperback:

9781607322467 | Univ Pr of Colorado, May 15, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Maya Daykeeping, three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala - examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Titles of the Lords of Totonicapan - dating to 1685, 1722, and 1855, are transcribed in K'iche or Kaqchikel side-by-side with English translations.

Re-creating Primordial Time: Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices

Product Description: Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and HernÃ¡ndez show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period...read more

By Christine Hernandez

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9781607322207 | Univ Pr of Colorado, October 15, 2013, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts.

Maya Creation Myths: Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam

Product Description: There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth." But around the close of the seventeenth century, an anonymous Maya scribe penned what he called u kahlay cab tu kinil, "the world history of the era," before Christianity came to the Peten...read more

By Timothy Knowlton

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9781607320203 | Univ Pr of Colorado, November 15, 2010, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth.

Mayan Mythology

Product Description: This new series is designed to help young readers understand the origins, cultural importance and impact of world mythologies; each title focuses on one cultural or national mythology and explains how those stories reflect the culture that created them...read more

By Stephen Currie

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9781420507478 | 1 edition (Lucent Books, May 4, 2012), cover price $39.40 | About this edition: This new series is designed to help young readers understand the origins, cultural importance and impact of world mythologies; each title focuses on one cultural or national mythology and explains how those stories reflect the culture that created them.

Maya and Aztec Mythology Rocks!

Product Description: In MAYA AND AZTEC MYTHOLOGY ROCKS!, author Michael A. Schuman retells some of the colorful tales of these fascinating people. He explores the similarities between the two civilizations, highlighting their myths about the creation of the world, the origin of men and women, the birth of music, and other intriguing tales...read more

By Michael A. Schuman

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9781598453270 | Enslow Pub Inc, July 1, 2011, cover price $12.88 | About this edition: In MAYA AND AZTEC MYTHOLOGY ROCKS!

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9780766038998 | Enslow Pub Inc, July 1, 2011, cover price $33.27 | About this edition: In MAYA AND AZTEC MYTHOLOGY ROCKS!

Myths of Mexico and Peru

Product Description: The real interest of American mediaeval history must ever circle around Mexico and Peru - her Golden Empires, her sole exemplars of civilisation; and it is to the books upon the character of these two nations that we must turn for a romantic interest as curious and as absorbing as that bound up in the histories of Egypt or Assyria...read more

By Lewis Spence

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9781241667030, titled "The Myths of Mexico and Peru" | Gardners Books, May 5, 2011, cover price $43.90 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781616404345, titled "The Myths of Mexico and Peru" | Cosimo Inc, September 30, 2010, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: The Myths of Mexico and Peru is a compilation of myths and legends that were passed down for years in South American cultures, and, at the time of the first printing in 1914, were just being discovered by Western researchers and archaeologists as they deciphered ancient languages.

9780893410315 | Reprint edition (Longwood Pr Ltd, June 1, 1976), cover price $45.00

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9781616404338, titled "The Myths of Mexico and Peru" | Cosimo Inc, September 30, 2010, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: The Myths of Mexico and Peru is a compilation of myths and legends that were passed down for years in South American cultures, and, at the time of the first printing in 1914, were just being discovered by Western researchers and archaeologists as they deciphered ancient languages.

9781409936138, titled "The Myths of Mexico and Peru" | Dodo Pr, October 30, 2008, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: James Lewis Thomas Chalmbers Spence (1874- 1955) was a Scottish journalist, whose efforts as a compiler of Scottish folklore have proved more durable than his efforts as a poet and occult scholar.

9781437532111, titled "The Myths of Mexico and Peru" | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, February 29, 2008), cover price $29.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781437531008, titled "The Myths of Mexico and Peru" | Bibliobazaar, February 29, 2008, cover price $26.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9780486283326, titled "The Myths of Mexico and Peru" | Dover Pubns, January 9, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Creation myths, legends of Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc, the Rain-God, The Bird Bride, Thonapa, and many more.

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Mayan and Aztec Mythology

By Jim Ollhoff

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9781617147241 | Abdo Group, August 1, 2011, cover price $27.07

Spiritual Turning Points of North American History

Product Description: This work builds on the foundation of the Popol Vuh, the document that retraces in mythical language the four ages, or stages of civilization, that all of America has undergone to some degree. It also moves from the Popol Vuh into later times through myths and legends of the Aztec and Iroquois...read more

By Luigi Morelli

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9781584200970 | Lindisfarne Pr, November 30, 2010, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This work builds on the foundation of the Popol Vuh, the document that retraces in mythical language the four ages, or stages of civilization, that all of America has undergone to some degree.

The Ancient Maya

Product Description: These timeless tales of gods and heroes give us a window into the beliefs, values, and practices of people who lived long ago.

By Virginia Schomp

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Miscellaneous:

9780761446422 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, September 1, 2009, cover price $34.21

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9780761442172 | Benchmark Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $34.21 | About this edition: These timeless tales of gods and heroes give us a window into the beliefs, values, and practices of people who lived long ago.

The Hero Twins: Against the Lords of Death: a Mayan Myth

By Dan Jolley and David Witt (illustrator)

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9781580138925 | Graphic Universe, March 1, 2009, cover price $8.95

Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities

By Karen Bassie-Sweet

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Hardcover:

9780806139579 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, November 30, 2008, cover price $50.00

Mesoamerican Myths

Product Description: In graphic novel format, presents three mythological tales from the Aztec and Mayan peoples.

By Mike Taylor (illustrator) and David West

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9781404208148 | Rosen Pub Group, September 30, 2006, cover price $14.05 | About this edition: In graphic novel format, presents three mythological tales from the Aztec and Mayan peoples.

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9781439540558 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $22.74 | also contains Mesoamerican Myths | About this edition: In graphic novel format, presents three mythological tales from the Aztec and Mayan peoples.

Mesoamerican Myths

Product Description: In graphic novel format, presents three mythological tales from the Aztec and Mayan peoples.

By Mike Taylor (illustrator) and David West

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9781404208025 | Rosen Pub Group, January 30, 2006, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In graphic novel format, presents three mythological tales from the Aztec and Mayan peoples.

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Goddess of the Ancient Maya

Product Description: Book by Peck, Douglas T.

By Douglas T. Peck

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9781436358668 | Xlibris Corp, August 1, 2008, cover price $24.99

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9781436358651 | Xlibris Corp, August 1, 2008, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Book by Peck, Douglas T.

Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel

Product Description: When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there. That they were in large part unsuccessful is evidenced by the survival of a number of documents written in Maya and preserved and added to by literate Mayas up to the 1830s...read more

By Munro S. Edmonson (editor)

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9780292730274 | Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there.

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9780292719378 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there.

The Hero Twins: Against the Lords of Death: A Mayan Myth

Product Description: Can two young boys outsmart and outwit the lords of death? The Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, were blessed by the Mayan gods with special powers. But their incredible skill at playing Pok-ta-Pok, the Mayan ball game, angers the lords of Xibalba, rulers of the land of the dead...read more

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9780822574958 | Graphic Universe, December 15, 2007, cover price $27.93 | About this edition: Can two young boys outsmart and outwit the lords of death?

Journey to Xibalba: A Life in Archaeology

Product Description: When Don Patterson's twenty-seven-year-old daughter turned to him for advice about her professional future, Patterson in turn reflected on his almost thirty-year experience working on major archaeological sites in Mexico and Central America...read more

By Don Patterson

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9780826342928 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: When Don Patterson's twenty-seven-year-old daughter turned to him for advice about her professional future, Patterson in turn reflected on his almost thirty-year experience working on major archaeological sites in Mexico and Central America.

The Mythology of the Aztec And Maya: An illustrated encyclopedia of the gods, myths and legends of the Aztecs, Maya and other peoples of ancient Mexico and central America, with over 200

Product Description: A comprehensive guide to the gods and goddesses, spirits and demons, myths and legends of Mexico and Central America.

By Charles Phillips

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9781844762361 | Southwater Pub, April 30, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A comprehensive guide to the gods and goddesses, spirits and demons, myths and legends of Mexico and Central America.

The Toe Bone and the Tooth

A survivor of the horrors of Guatemalan death squads casts his own story against the backdrop of an ancient Mayan myth, showing readers how use the powerful story as a metaphor for their own lives. Reprint.

By Martin Prechtel

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9780007142682 | Reprint edition (Element Books Ltd, April 1, 2004), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A survivor of the horrors of Guatemalan death squads casts his own story against the backdrop of an ancient Mayan myth, showing readers how use the powerful story as a metaphor for their own lives.

Mythology of The Aztecs and Maya: Myths and Legends of Ancient Mexico and Northern Central America

Product Description: An accessible A-to-Z format provides concise, easy-to-locate entries on more than 350 key characters and religious sites. Aimed at readers of all ages, this book is a comprehensive, exciting and rich source of information on the beliefs and traditions of the people of Mesoamerica...read more

By David M. Jones

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9781844763979 | Southwater Pub, November 1, 2007, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: An accessible A-to-Z format provides concise, easy-to-locate entries on more than 350 key characters and religious sites.

9781842158654 | Southwater Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A fascinating exploration of the mythologies of the Aztecs and the Mayas.

Parallels: Mesoamerican and Ancient Middle Eastern Traditions a Tradition

By Diane E. Wirth

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9780960209606 | 1 edition (Stonecliff Pub, May 1, 2003), cover price $17.95

Myths of Pre-Columbian America

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By Donald A. MacKenzie

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9780766148314 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 1, 2003, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

9780486293790 | Dover Pubns, November 15, 1996, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Expert discussions of such myths and mythological figures as the milk goddess and her pot symbol, the jewel-water and mugwort goddess, goddesses of love and food, Tlaloc and the dragon, love and mother deities, Quetzalcoatl, many more.

The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya: Cycles and Steps from the Madrid Codex

Product Description: Flourishing by A.D. 250-300, Maya civilization extended over large sections of modern Mexico and Guatemala, as well as Belize, and into present-day El Salvador and Honduras. The pre-Conquest inhabitants of this vast area left important clues to their understanding of religious and historical events in the remains of their architecture, painting, sculpture, distinctive polychrome ceramics, and sophisticated hieroglyphic writing...read more

By Merideth Paxton

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9780826322920 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Flourishing by A.

Paperback:

9780826350367 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, January 1, 2011), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Flourishing by A.

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