El escritor y académico mexicano Ilan Stavans acaba de publicar una traducción al inglés del Popol Vhu, una obra clásica que recopilación de leyendas de la civilización maya. Cuenta la creación del ...

The literature of ancient America is mostly lost to us today, except for a few scattered remnants of poems, histories and myths that survived the onslaught of European contact and its waves of ...

The Popol Vuh is the Sacred Book of the K’iche’, Mayan people who thrived in pre-Columbian Guatemala. First written down in the 16th century, the text relates the creation stories of the Maya: how ...

Every culture has an origin story. Many Latinos can trace their cultural roots to an epic poem that was passed down in Central America for over a millennium — but this rich, important history has been ...

"Distance," writes the French philospher Jacques Ranciere in his latest book, "is not an evil to be conquered but the normal condition of any communication." A sobering thought in a time when any kind ...

The history and significance of one of the most mind-bending mythological sagas ever written. Show more Mythological sagas are often fantastical and push the imagination to the limit but the Popol Vuh ...

“As a German filmmaker after the war, we grew up as – not only me, but all my peers – we grew up as a fatherless generation – as a generation of orphans. Our fathers either had fled the country, were ...