Mayan myths. From Sacrifice and Sacred Cocoa to Popol-Vuh and the Underworld of Xibalba
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Mayan myths. From Sacrifice and Sacred Cocoa to Popol-Vuh and the Underworld of Xibalba
14.99 €
11.99 €
Creator and Creator are one Tepeu and Kukumats in infinite waters. The Triune Heart of Heaven and the Feathered Serpent Kukulkan. Twins from the epic “Popol-Vuh”, who turn their brothers into monkeys and defeat the lords of death Xibalba. Flesh-maize, blood-cocoa and immortal souls.
All this is an amazing world of Mayan mythology. In the first millennium, they created the brightest civilization of the New World, with hieroglyphic writing, astronomy, and the exact sciences. It suffered greatly from neighbors and European colonizers, but crumbs of its precious heritage are preserved in bizarrely dark legends, artifacts and written monuments.
The new book by Galina Ershova, a leading expert on the peoples of America and a student of the legendary scientist Yuri Knorozov, who deciphered the Mayan hieroglyphs, is an amazing excursion into this half-forgotten, but living and bright universe.
Mayan Indians also serve as guides to the deep layers of culture in general, where on the border between reality, archetypes of the psyche and shaky dreams, myth produces a comprehensive vision of the cosmos and social being.
All this is an amazing world of Mayan mythology. In the first millennium, they created the brightest civilization of the New World, with hieroglyphic writing, astronomy, and the exact sciences. It suffered greatly from neighbors and European colonizers, but crumbs of its precious heritage are preserved in bizarrely dark legends, artifacts and written monuments.
The new book by Galina Ershova, a leading expert on the peoples of America and a student of the legendary scientist Yuri Knorozov, who deciphered the Mayan hieroglyphs, is an amazing excursion into this half-forgotten, but living and bright universe.
Mayan Indians also serve as guides to the deep layers of culture in general, where on the border between reality, archetypes of the psyche and shaky dreams, myth produces a comprehensive vision of the cosmos and social being.
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