The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America
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The Popol Vuh - Lewis Spence
Lewis Spence
The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America
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Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE POPOL VUH
The First Book
The Myth of Vukub-Cakix
The Second Book
The Third Book
The Fourth Book
COSMOGONY OF THE POPOL VUH
Kiché and Mexican Mythology
THE PANTHEON OF THE POPOL VUH
The Vukub-Cakix Myth
Book II. commented upon
The Harrying of Xibalba
Book III. commented upon
Early Spanish Authors and the Popol Vuh
Evidence of Metrical Composition
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
I
II
Original Title Page.The Popol Vuh
The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America
By
Lewis Spence
Published by David Nutt, at the Sign of the Phœnix, Long Acre, London
1908
PREFACE
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The Popol Vuh
is the New World’s richest mythological mine. No translation of it has as yet appeared in English, and no adequate translation in any European language. It has been neglected to a certain extent because of the unthinking strictures passed upon its authenticity. That other manuscripts exist in Guatemala than the one discovered by Ximenes and transcribed by Scherzer and Brasseur de Bourbourg is probable. So thought Brinton, and the present writer shares his belief. And ere it is too late it would be well that these—the only records of the faith of the builders of the mystic ruined and deserted cities of Central America—should be recovered. This is not a matter that should be left to the enterprise of individuals, but one which should engage the consideration of interested governments; for what is myth to-day is often history to-morrow.
LEWIS SPENCE.
July 1908.
THE POPOL VUH
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[The numbers in the text refer to notes at the end of the study]
There is no document of greater importance to the study of the pre-Columbian mythology of America than the Popol Vuh.
It is the chief source of our knowledge of the mythology of the Kiché people of Central America, and it is further of considerable comparative value when studied in conjunction with the mythology of the Nahuatlacâ, or Mexican peoples. This interesting text, the recovery of which forms one of the most romantic episodes in the history of American bibliography, was written by a Christianised native of Guatemala some time in the seventeenth century, and was copied in the Kiché language, in which it was originally written, by a monk of the Order of Predicadores, one Francisco Ximenes, who also added a Spanish translation and scholia.
The Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, a profound student of American archæology and languages (whose euhemeristic interpretations of the Mexican myths are as worthless as the priceless materials he unearthed are valuable) deplored, in a letter to the Duc de Valmy,1 the supposed loss of the Popol Vuh,
which he was aware had been made use of early in the nineteenth century by a certain Don Felix Cabrera. Dr. C. Scherzer, an Austrian scholar, thus made aware of its value, paid a visit to the Republic of Guatemala in 1854 or 1855, and was successful in tracing the missing manuscript in the library of the University of San Carlos in the city of Guatemala. It was afterwards ascertained that its scholiast, Ximenes, had deposited it in the library of his convent at Chichicastenango, whence it passed to the San Carlos library in 1830.
Scherzer at once made a copy of the Spanish translation of the manuscript, which he published at Vienna in 1856 under the title of "Las Historias del origen de los Indios de Guatemala, par el