Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel

by Anonymous and Munro S. Edmonson

Book Overview

When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there. That they were in large part unsuccessful is evidenced by the survival of a number of documents written in Maya and preserved and added to by literate Mayas up to the 1830s. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is such a document, literally the history of Yucatan written by and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029271937X
• ISBN13: 9780292719378
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"