{"id":547,"date":"2017-03-02T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/?page_id=547"},"modified":"2019-08-18T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T19:55:36","slug":"popol-vuh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/?page_id=547","title":{"rendered":"Popol Vuh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lecture notes – Popol Vuh<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the same way that the Genesis story is the creation myth of Christians, Jews, & Muslims alike, our next reading is the creation myth of the indigenous Quiche people, or Mayan Indians of Central America (southern Mexico & Guatemala).<\/h4>\n

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This story is just one part of the broader History of the Americas – Link to timeline<\/a><\/h4>\n

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.2018 study finds ruins more extensive than ever imagined….finds 60k new structures with lidar data.
\nPopulation estimates at peak now 10 million.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/03\/world\/americas\/mayan-city-discovery-laser.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n
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Image of landscape of ancient ruins with dotted lines indicating more and larger buildings underneath…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The contemporary Mayan Indians are now primarily located in Guatemala, roughly six million of a general population of eleven million Guatemalans. One million are Quiche Maya, the rest are other Mayan tribes and languages<\/p>\n

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The Mayans are renowned for their early work in math and astronomy. “The foundation of Mayan timekeeping is a divinitory calendar of 260 days. It is made up of two shorter cycles, one consisting of an endlessly repeating sequence of thirteen day numbers, and the other of an endlessly repeating sequence of twenty day names. This produces a larger repeating sequence of 260 combinations, as follows”:
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260 days is understood as “the calendar of the earth”, and close to the average pregnancy cycle, and the growth cycle of corn planted in highland Guatemala. Ancient Mayan astronomers measured the rhythms of lunar, planetary, and solar cycles against those of the divinatory calendar. These are referred to throughout the Popol Vuh. (–Tedlock)<\/p>\n

Tzotzil Bookmakers Collective – Taller Lenateros<\/a><\/p>\n

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Creation story<\/strong> \/ How things came to be<\/em><\/h2>\n

Story elements: Animals \u2013 deer & rabbits short tails, falcon eyepatch<\/h4>\n

When\/how was the story written down? Why?
\nWhat are the gods like? What are godly characteristics?
\nWhat are characteristics, structure of story itself?
\nWhat do story elements tell us? What is implied, significant?<\/h4>\n

popolvuh<\/a>\u00a0(pdf) \u00a0\u00a0 And Genesis (.doc)<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is the beginning of the Ancient Word, here in this place called Quiche. Here we shall inscribe, we shall implant the Ancient Word, the potential and source for everything done in the citadel of Quiche, in the nation of Quiche people.<\/h4>\n

the Maker, Modeler, named Bearer, Begetter,
\nHunahpu Possum, Hunahpu Coyote,
\nGreat White Peccary, Coati,
\nSovereign Plumed Serpent,
\nHeart of the Lake, Heart of the Sea,
\nplate shaper, bowl shaper, as they are called,
\nalso named, also described as
\nthe midwife, matchmaker
\nnamed Xpiyacoc, Xmucane,
\ndefender, protector,
\ntwice a midwife, twice a matchmaker<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Popol Vuh \/ Council Book
\nOjer Tzij, the \u201cAncient Word\u201d or \u201cPrior Word\u201d \/
\n\u201cThe Light That Came from Beside the Sea\u201d<\/h4>\n
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the fourfold siding, fourfold cornering,
\nmeasuring, fourfold staking,
\nhalving the cord, stretching the cord,
\nin the sky, on the earth,
\nthe four sides, the four corners, as it is said,
\nby the Maker, Modeler,
\nmother-father of life, of humankind,
\ngiver of breath, giver of heart,
\nbearer, upbringer in the light that lasts
\nof those born in the light, begotten in the light;
\nworrier, knower of everything,whatever there is:
\nsky-earth, lake-sea.<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gods\u2019 three attempts to create human beings:<\/h4>\n
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    Beings with no arms, only squawk, chatter, howl (animals of today)<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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    Mud beings can\u2019t walk or turn head or keep shape, reproduce\u2014dissolve<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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    Hurricane floods them, monsters, animals attack\u2026descendants are monkeys.Before fourth try, history of deities:<\/h4>\n

    Third try, consult Xpiyacoc, matchmaker (\u201cprior to all marriage\u201d) & Xmucane, midwife \u201cprior to all birth\u201d) Wooden beings look and talk and reproduce, but fail to call on gods in prayer.<\/h4>\n
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