Popol Vuh
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
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- Anonyme ou composite
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~13 500 mots · 64 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAPopol Vuh. (n.d.). Popol Vuh. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/popol-vuh/the-popol-vuh-the-mythic-and-heroic-sagas-of-the-kiches-of-central-america
- MLAPopol Vuh. "Popol Vuh." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/popol-vuh/the-popol-vuh-the-mythic-and-heroic-sagas-of-the-kiches-of-central-america.
- ChicagoPopol Vuh. Popol Vuh. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/popol-vuh/the-popol-vuh-the-mythic-and-heroic-sagas-of-the-kiches-of-central-america.
De quoi il s'agit
Popol Vuh : le livre sacré des Mayas k'iche'.
Contexte et histoire
La création du monde, les jumeaux héros qui descendent aux enfers jouer à la balle, et la généalogie des lignages guatémaltèques. Il a été écrit en k'iche' en caractères latins vers 1550, quand les originaux hiéroglyphiques avaient déjà été brûlés. Traduction anglaise.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
The "Popol Vuh" is the New World's richest mythological mine. No translation of it has as yet appeared in English, and no adequate translation in any European language. It has been neglected to a certain extent because of the unthinking strictures passed upon its authenticity. That other manuscripts exist in Guatemala than the one discovered by Ximenes and transcribed by Scherzer and Brasseur de Bourbourg is probable. So thought Brinton, and the present writer shares his belief. And ere it is too late it would be well that these--the only records of the faith of the builders of the mystic ruined and deserted cities of Central America--should be recovered. This is not a matter that should be left to the enterprise of individuals, but one which should engage the consideration of interested governments; for what is myth to-day is often history to-morrow. LEWIS SPENCE. July 1908. THE POPOL VUH [The numbers in the text refer to notes at the end of the study] 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 Kiché people of Central America, and it is further of considerable comparative value when studied in conjunction with the mythology of the Nahuatlacâ, or Mexican peoples.…