Four Creations: An Epic Story of the Chiapas Mayas

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Gary H. Gossen
University of Oklahoma Press, 2002 - 1134 páginas

Four Creations is a collection of seventy-four stories told to Gary H. Gossen by Tzotzil Maya storytellers in San Juan Chamula, Mexico. Spanning four cycles of creations, destructions, and restorations from the dawn of cosmic order to the present era, this epic history reveals a distinctly Maya vision of the universe, grand in scope yet leavened with local humor, irony, and the Tzotzil narrators’ own critical commentaries.

Four Creations includes mythic accounts of modern history, such as the Wars of Independence, the Mexican Revolution, and the current Protestant evangelical movement. Given in both transcribed Tzotzil and English translations, the texts are enlivened by more than one hundred Maya Indian drawings and by Gossen’s extensive ethnographic and historical notes based on his conversations with the narrators and more than thirty-five years of study.

Miguel León-Portílla’s Foreword situates Four Creations within the broader context of Mesoamerican culture and traditions, while the Afterword by Jan Rus relates this work to recent events in modern-day Chamula.

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Foreword by Miguel LeónPortilla
xiii
Text 47
xli
PART
10
Text I
21
Of Our Father Sun and His Older Brother
285
About How the Second People Became Monkeys
297
About a Time When Raccoons Were Still People
307
Of Olden Days When Weeds Could Speak
315
Text 49
697
Text 5
705
Text 53
731
Christs Magical
747
SECTION 3
769
Text 58
781
Of What Happened to Rabbit Long
783
Of an Unfaithful Wife Who Goes to the Grave with
797

Text 26
321
About How Our Lord San Juan Made His Home
337
Text 28
349
Text 29
375
Text 2
383
Text 4
399
Text 32
409
Text 33
415
Text
449
Text 36
457
Of the Beeswax
471
Of Music
491
Text 39
509
Text 40
529
On the Adventures of Xun beyond the
539
Text 42
597
Pukuj
643
71
659
Text 6
809
SECTION 4
821
About the Great Famine
831
Text 8
835
Text 64
845
Text 65
857
Accounts from Old Men about Olden Times
865
Live with Us Forever as Rats
943
Text 43
1055
Text 10
1066
PART 4
1078
THE FOURTH CREATION
1091
Maps
1111
Text 12
1112
Of the Earth Lords Daughter
1114
Text 19
1118
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