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  <title><![CDATA[Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life And The Glories Of]]></title>
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  <default_description> &lt;I&gt;Popol Vuh,&lt;/I&gt; the Quich&#233; book of creation, is not only an important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a primeval sea &amp; ends with the radiant splendor of the Mayan lords who founded the Quich&#233; kingdom in the Guatemalan highlands. Originally written in Mayan hieroglyphs, it was transcribed into the Roman alphabet in the sixteenth century.
 This new edition of Dennis Tedlock's unabridged, widely praised translation includes new notes &amp; commentary, newly translated passages, newly deciphered hieroglyphs &amp; over forty new illustrations.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life And The Glories Of</original_title>
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    <name><![CDATA[Matthew]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 03 22:37:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 03 22:41:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was hard to rate this book on the five-star scale.  It's kind of like trying to rate the bible.  It is truly a fascinating read and worth the time.  Here are the liner notes:<br/><br/>_Popol Vuh_, the Quiche Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58383625">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 25 18:18:52 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 22 19:43:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 22 19:43:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can you really rate something like the Popol Vuh?]]></body>
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    <review id="34827949">
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    <name><![CDATA[Morgan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 12 13:09:42 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 08 12:19:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 12 13:09:42 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Free Library of Philadelphia leant me their 1950 edition of &quot;The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiché Maya.&quot; Purported to have been scrawled on ficus bark by an unknown Quiché author in Latinized Mayan script and discovered by one Father Francisco Ximénez in the late 17th century, this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34827949">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30009588">
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    <name><![CDATA[LonewolfMX]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Raza and Native American Majors]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Jackie Mendez, and Professors Rivera &amp; Onate]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 12 22:16:09 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 23 19:57:31 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the Mayan Bible so to say it deal with the Quiche Mayan creation stories and the diverse characters with at times difficult to memorize names.<br/><br/>It is full of symbolism that at times is difficult to interpret for the first time reader, but so far it is an interesting read. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30009588">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60441731">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cristina]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 20 14:42:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 20 14:44:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Are uxe‘ ojer tzij <br/>  waral K‘iche‘ ub‘i‘. <br/>Waral <br/>  xchiqatz‘ib‘aj wi <br/>  xchiqatikib‘a‘ wi ojer tzij, <br/>utikarib‘al <br/>uxe‘nab‘al puch rnojel xb‘an pa <br/>  tinamit K‘iche‘ <br/>  ramaq‘ K‘iche‘ winaq. &quot;This is the root of the a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60441731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60023676">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 17 08:01:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 17 08:04:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[por increible que parezca las similitudes entre el libro egipcio de los muertos y este libro son extraordinarias, creo que todo en este planeta, sucesos, historias, creencias, heroes, etc... es lo mismo pero con diferentes nombre, tal vez menos nombres dan mas similitudes, menos tiempo, mas eternida...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60023676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44539553">
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    <name><![CDATA[Carolyn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Hicksville, NY]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 12:43:26 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read this for my earlier years of college but ended up enjoying the book quite a book. I might not count it among my favorites, but it was very enlightning &amp; worth keeping on the shelf at home. It helped me to look at the world a little different.]]></body>
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    <review id="45053512">
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    <name><![CDATA[Shannon]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[The sacred text of the Quiche Maya (with some Christian influence (possibly disdainful) as well as some overlapping with other creation stories, but distinctly Maya).  If you liked Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, you're really going to love this book.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="49920856">
    <user id="2138587">
    <name><![CDATA[Clint]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Jonesboro, AR]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I used this as a primary source for a thesis on the effects of mayan aztec religion on their everyday life. It's kinda like the mayan bible. Great bok for anyone interested in religion.]]></body>
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    <review id="52730648">
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    <name><![CDATA[Adrian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The structure of the twin's journey through the underworld was mesmerizing. If you read one origin myth other than the one you were brought up with, read this one. Rich and imaginative. ]]></body>
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    <review id="7474157">
    <user id="520456">
    <name><![CDATA[Hunter]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Serena, IL]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone craving the gospel of Tohil.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[  The Popol Vuh is an amazing book chronicling the history of the Quiche Mayan people from the world's creation by the deities Heart of Sky and Plumed Serpent until the arrival of the Spaniards.  Tedlock's translation is accessible and well-paced, with in-text commentary and reproductions of Mayan a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7474157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57888739">
    <user id="2366476">
    <name><![CDATA[Cheryl]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 30 16:29:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was thoroughly enjoyable.]]></body>
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    <review id="49386637">
    <user id="1880575">
    <name><![CDATA[Maria]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Waldorf, MD]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 15 18:03:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[the book of my people. ]]></body>
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    <review id="51574095">
    <user id="1171587">
    <name><![CDATA[Janelle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Blackfoot, ID]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really interesting! ]]></body>
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    <review id="72949394">
    <user id="1209630">
    <name><![CDATA[Philip]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Escondido, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 29 19:06:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm enthralled!]]></body>
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    <review id="13724390">
    <user id="763670">
    <name><![CDATA[Laura]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 27 11:28:31 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I can't find the exact edition I read.  That said, the Popol Vuh completely blew my mind. 4 stars instead of 5 because you really have to work for it.  While I was reading it, I retold it, in greatly simplified episodes, to my two sons every night.  It makes for a truly fascinating and macabre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13724390">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2396114">
    <user id="2442">
    <name><![CDATA[Katie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 12 20:44:08 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 26 07:52:38 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 12 20:39:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a strange thing to read a book that starts with the creation of humanity by gods and ends, in the not so distant past, with the society that created the book being wiped out. &quot;This is enough about the being of Quiche, given that there is no longer a place to see it.... everything has been ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2396114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the Mayan (Quechua?) bible.  It tells the story of creation for the Maya. It's very simply written, so a child could read it, but there is wonderful symbolism in the story.  My favorite is the story of the twins. I don't think the date is known of the original text, so that's always interest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23847303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I compared this text to good ol' Beowulf in a paper I wrote for my Love and Death in the Middle Ages class.  My point was that Catholic priests sure know how to jump in and put Christian themes into other cultures' interpretations of why the world is the way it is.  Silly priests.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my young students today was fascinated by an illustrated representation of a mosquito he found while thumbing through my copy of the Popul Vuh. Then weeks later after asking if dolphins were smarter than man he asked if they are smarter than Mayans.]]></body>
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