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The Book of the People: Popol Vuh by Delia Goetz and Sylvanus Griswold Morley from Adrián Recino's translation from Quiché into Spanish This book, written shortly after the Spanish Conquest by a Quiché Indian who had learned to read and write Spanish, is generally known as the Popol Vuh, Popol Buj, Book of the Council, Book of the Community, the Sacred Book, or National Book of the Quiché, and it contains the cosmogonical concepts and ancient traditions of this aboriginal American people, the history of their origin, and the chronology of their kings down to the year 1550.
The name of its author and the fate of his original manuscript, which remained hidden for more than 150 years, are unknown. Father Ximénez, who found it in his parish at Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, transcribed the original Quiché text and translated it into Spanish under the title Historias del origen de los Indios de esta Provincia de Guatemala. This transcription, in the handwriting of this priest-historian, is still preserved; but no information has survived concerning the original document written in the Quiché tongue. |
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Letters of Cortes to the King of Spain: First Letter by Francis Augustus MacNut Cortes' first letter to the King of Spain accounting the exploration of the coast of the Yucatan to Vera Cruz. Cortes describes the land, animals and natives he encounters. He also describes the native human sacrifices which he uses as pretext to conquer and convert them to Christianity. $1.25, PDF Document, 25 pp. |
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Letters of Cortes to the King of Spain: Third Letter by Francis Augustus MacNut Cortes' letter accounting his march to and conquest of Tenochtitlan. $2.50, PDF Document, 68 pp. |
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The Books of Chilan Balam by Daniel G. Brinton An address of the prophetic and historic records of the Mayas of the Yucatan. $1.25, PDF Document, 10 pp. |
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The Journey of the Soul by Daniel G. Brinton An address showing the common underlying similarities in the mythologies of the souls journey held by the Egyptian, Aryan and Aztec peoples. $1.25, PDF Document, 6 pp. |
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Nagualism. A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History. by Daniel G. Brinton A history and in-depth study of Nagualism of Mesoamerica. Other ideas studied are Nagual and Tonal, which anyone who has an interest in Carlos Castaneda's books will find quite illuminating considering it was originally written in 1894 and Castaneda was born in 1925. $1.75, PDF Document, 40 pp. |
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Ancient Nahuatl Poetry by Daniel G. Brinton Contains the Nahuatl text of 27 ancient Mexican poems with a translation, introduction, notes and vocabulary. Especially valuable to the student of the Nahuatl language and those who wish to understand more of the ancient Mexican culture and thought through their poetry. $3.20, PDF Document, 80 pp. |
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Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, with a gloss in Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton Sacred songs and hymns of the ancient Mexicans presented for study rather than a completed study by Brington. They reveal the authentic spirit of the ancient religion; show us the language in its most archaic form; preserve references to various mythical cycli of importance to the historian; and illustrate the alterations in the spoken tongue adopted in the esoteric dialect of the priesthood. $2.30, PDF Document, 58 pp. |