The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kich?s of Central America【電子書籍】[ Lewis Spence ]

＜p＞There is no document of greater importance to the study of the pre-Columbian mythology of America than the “Popol Vuh.” It is the chief source of our knowledge of the mythology of the Kich? people of Central America, and it is further of considerable comparative value when studied in conjunction with the mythology of the Nahuatlac?, or Mexican peoples. This interesting text, the recovery of which forms one of the most romantic episodes in the history of American bibliography, was written by a Christianised native of Guatemala some time in the seventeenth century, and was copied in the Kich? language, in which it was originally written, by a monk of the Order of Predicadores, one Francisco Ximenes, who also added a Spanish translation and scholia. The Abb? Brasseur de Bourbourg, a profound student of American arch?ology and languages (whose euhemeristic interpretations of the Mexican myths are as worthless as the priceless materials he unearthed are valuable) deplored, in a letter to．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る