ISBN:
9780292771451
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 266 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
Series Statement:
The Texas Pan American series
Series Statement:
Texas Pan American Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Epoch of miracles
DDC:
398.2/08997
Keywords:
Mayas Folklore
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Maya literature Translations into English
;
Indians of Mexico Folklore
;
Maya literature--Translations into English
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Foreword, by Dennis Tedlock -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- The Mayan Tradition -- The Yucatec Maya -- Speaking Mayan -- Yucatec Mayan Ethnopoetics -- Dialogue -- Oral Features of Performance in Translation -- Yucatec Mayan Oral Literature -- 2. Ancient Conversations -- Origin Stories in the Form of Lessons -- Conversations in Mayan -- Conversations among People -- Big Things -- How Just One Poor Man Lives -- Things That Happen to You -- The Old Lady of Mani -- Stories about the Ancient Times -- Where the Sacred Corn Seed Was Taken, I -- Where the Sacred Corn Seed Was Taken, II
Abstract:
The Epoch of Miracles -- The Story of the Hunchbacks (with Mayan transcription) -- Santo Muerte -- Jesus Christ -- 3. Counsels -- Narratives about Mayan Political History -- The History of Don Francisco Xiu -- The First Thing I Said to Dr. Morley -- The Patron, I -- The Story of Venancio Puc -- The Patron, II -- Divination and Signs -- Signs, I -- Signs, II -- 4. Secrets -- Two Deer Stories -- The Man Who Was Such a Hunter -- The Deer Secret -- A Secret about Rainfall -- The Owners of Rain (with Mayan transcription) -- An Orpheus Story
Abstract:
A Person of the Milpa and an Evil Thing and a Priest and a Small Friend -- Frightening Things and Wizards -- Just Things That Frighten One -- Wizards -- 5. Stories -- A Story about Mistaken Identity -- San Antonio -- A Story about a Trickster and a Priest -- Ahau -- A Story about a Vulture's Clothes -- A Vulture, a Dove, and a Squirrel -- A Story about an Unusual Marriage -- A Person and a Vulture -- A Story about an Attempt to Ward off Death -- Saint Death -- A Story about Heroic Adventures -- The Seven Towers of Marble -- 6. The Milpa Story -- The Story of the Milpa -- A Milpero -- 7. Wordplay
Abstract:
Riddles -- A Song -- The Armadillo -- Jokes -- The Joke about the Anniversary -- The Joke about the Woman and Her Children -- The Joke about an Old Man Who Went to Mérida for a Year -- Bird Lore -- The Sacred Mockingbirds -- Tasapatan -- A Dove -- The Woodpecker -- The Thrush -- The Cardinal -- Definitions -- Ho, Cul, Uxmal -- Tabi -- Odor -- Path -- Things -- Hail -- Rainbow -- Anteater -- Shade -- Perhaps -- 8. The Feathered Serpent -- The Last Story of the Feathered Serpent -- Colas -- 9. Discussion -- Works Cityed
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266)
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