Creation in the Popol Vuh

The Popol Vuh is considered to be the single most important piece of Meso-American literature.

Striking parallels between the Popol Vuh and the Hebrew stories of Genesis powerfully reinforce the notion that members of the 'Lost Tribes of Israel" eventually made their way somehow from the Middle East to settle in the Americas, ultimately influencing Mayan literature and religion.

The Popol Vuh, A sacred book of the Maya, is thought to have been based on an original Maya codex written in Mayan hieroglyphic script. Recordings of the original stories would therefore pre-date the arrival of Europeans to the Americas by 500 to 1,000 years.

The significance of the book is enormous since it is one of a small number of early Meso-American sacred texts. The mythology it records is believed to correspond closely to that of the Pre-Classic Maya period prior to 250 A.D. The original Mayan hieroglyphic texts have been lost to time.

The first clearly identifiable Maya settlements were established by 1,800 B.C.E. Their descendants survive today in Mexico and Central America. The Popol Vuh continues to play an important role in the belief system of the people of the Quiché-Maya Nation, who were solely responsible for its preservation from the ancient to the present day. The original manuscript was called "The Manuscript of Quiché".

The 'Tower of Babel' story of Genesis also has a striking parallel in the Popol Vue.

"And having heard of a city, they went there. All arrived at Tulán. (Possibly Babylon?) It was impossible to count the men who arrived.

And there it was that the speech of the tribes changed; their tongues became different. They could no longer understand each other clearly after arriving at Tulán.

There also they separated. There were some who had to go to the East, but many came here. When they arrived at Tulán, the old traditions say they had traveled far in order to arrive there."

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Education

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• HURACAN
• GOD
• WORD
• HURRICANE
• POPOL
• VUH
• CREATION
• LIGHT
• GENESIS
• MAN
• FLOOD
• HUMANITIES
• RELIGION
• FAITH
• SPIRITUALITY
• MESOAMERICA

[Owl559]

Where can I get this book?

[MSeanH]

You can find the Popol Vuh at Amazon-dot-com

[1980vince]

@charkee1 YOU FUCKEN SOUND LIKE A FUCKEN NERD.YOU ARE NO CHALLENGE. YOUR LIES ARE BORING . PEOPLE GET A KICK OUT OF TELLING LIES BUT THE MOST SUREAL KICK IS THE EXPRESSION OF FACE IN THE TRUTH. THE CORRECT DEFINITION OF A LIE IS FALSE HOPE. STOP BORING MY PEOPLE WITH LIES. FUCKEN PUERKO.

[1980vince]

@charkee1 YOU SPANIARD PIECE OF SHIT. TELL ME WHAT'S WITH THE FUCKED UP SPANIARD LISP,SO DISGUSTING.YOUR BIG NOSES,NOT ONE BIT EXOTIC. YOU SPANISH DOGS ARE THE GENUINE SPAWN OF SATAN, I WILL BE SPITTING ON CORTES MANIANA.

[charkee1]

@1980vince I feel sorry for you, but you make me giggle too. What a waste of a mind. Everytime you write you keep showing a willful disregard for reason of any sort. You need to get some professional help, you really do. No tiene todo de su juego de barrajas. You aint playn wit a full deck.

[charkee1]

@1980vince You are not boring, you are entertaining. Its hard to believe that somebody that can use a key board has no inkling of what reason or knowledge is. You fail to recognize it when it is rubbed into your face. You are really funny, but also tragic. There is little hope for you, unless you wake up and see you have become as the 1500's Aztec. I mean you are so dumb you don't know you are stupid; that's the worst kind, the kind that takes effort to cultivate. I feel sorry for you.

[charkee1]

@1980vince The Spanish wrote down what they found. They found mass murder sacrifices, human flesh, insects, corn in the markets. Homosexuality and pedophilia were openly practiced in the streets. Satanism had become the official state religion. They were destroyed because they devolved into the most degenerate civilzation ever recorded in history. They were universally hated by all their neighbors. The Mayans before them destroyed themselves in endless civil wars. They too had become degenerate

[charkee1]

@1980vince You can't even write Spanish right. You have shown no knowledge in any of your posts. The sad thing is you are typical of a the generation Y, you are unable to differentiate between lies, truth, opinion and facts, which of the latter you have not demontrated a single example. You, as your cannibal and queer Aztec ancestrors are a generation not morally nor intellectually fit to continue civilization. It appear quite clear you are deranged and likely mentally ill. You a cholo drogo?

[charkee1]

@1980vince I rest my case, Funny your comments get removed. Anybody can get thumbs up with alternative accounts. I get a kick at showing how violently ignorant you are and you don't even see it. You don't speak the language, just another Cholo? and a pretty dumb one too. You, and you only have proven my point beyond a doubt, it is you that stuck your own foot in your own mouth for all to see. So get our your spray paint can and write some really brave things tonight.

[charkee1]

@1980vince You are fun to play with. You don't even know how stupid you look, lol. Eres tu normal? Parace un loco, infermo. De todos modos no tienes mucho futuro. No leas la lengua? Que tal que escribo in Quiche? Iri at mox.