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Meaning of popol vuh



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popol vuh
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Narrative of the origin of the world and humans, which ends with the story of the tribe of maya kiche. The name means " book of 34 community; and was coined by the priest and archaeologist Barasseur de Bourbourg to give it a more pre-Columbian title. The original translation is fray Francisco Ximénez, who gave it a more European style to the text, resulting in doubts about the Mayan origin of the work.

  










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