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Anonymous (Popol Vuh)
How the K'iche' Maya tucked a whole world inside a book, and how it nearly slipped away
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The Popol Vuh has no single author. It comes from the K'iche' Maya people of highland Guatemala, and it belonged to the whole community long before anyone wrote it down. For generations, elders and lords kept its stories alive by telling them aloud.
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- Popol Vuh c. 1550
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