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Book Synopsis
A wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set of translations from the oral literature of the Yucatec Maya.

Table of Contents
  • Foreword, by Dennis Tedlock
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
    • The Mayan Tradition
    • The Yucatec Maya
    • Speaking Mayan
    • Yucatec Mayan Ethnopoetics
    • Dialogue
    • Oral Features of Performance in Translation
    • Yucatec Mayan Oral Literature
  • 2. Ancient Conversations
    • Origin Stories in the Form of Lessons
    • Conversations in Mayan
    • Conversations among People
    • Big Things
    • How Just One Poor Man Lives
    • Things That Happen to You
    • The Old Lady of Mani
    • Stories about the Ancient Times
    • Where the Sacred Corn Seed Was Taken, I
    • Where the Sacred Corn Seed Was Taken, II
    • The Epoch of Miracles
    • The Story of the Hunchbacks (with Mayan transcription)
    • Santo Muerte
    • Jesus Christ
  • 3. Counsels
    • Narratives about Mayan Political History
    • The History of Don Francisco Xiu
    • The First Thing I Said to Dr. Morley
    • The Patron, I
    • The Story of Venancio Puc
    • The Patron, II
    • Divination and Signs
    • Signs, I
    • Signs, II
  • 4. Secrets
    • Two Deer Stories
    • The Man Who Was Such a Hunter
    • The Deer Secret
    • A Secret about Rainfall
    • The Owners of Rain (with Mayan transcription)
    • An Orpheus Story
    • A Person of the Milpa and an Evil Thing and a Priest and a Small Friend
    • Frightening Things and Wizards
    • Just Things That Frighten One
    • Wizards
  • 5. Stories
    • A Story about Mistaken Identity
    • San Antonio
    • A Story about a Trickster and a Priest
    • Ahau
    • A Story about a Vulture’s Clothes
    • A Vulture, a Dove, and a Squirrel
    • A Story about an Unusual Marriage
    • A Person and a Vulture
    • A Story about an Attempt to Ward off Death
    • Saint Death
    • A Story about Heroic Adventures
    • The Seven Towers of Marble
  • 6. The Milpa Story
    • The Story of the Milpa
    • A Milpero
  • 7. Wordplay
    • Riddles
    • A Song
    • The Armadillo
    • Jokes
    • The Joke about the Anniversary
    • The Joke about the Woman and Her Children
    • The Joke about an Old Man Who Went to Mérida for a Year
    • Bird Lore
    • The Sacred Mockingbirds
    • Tasapatan
    • A Dove
    • The Woodpecker
    • The Thrush
    • The Cardinal
    • Definitions
    • Ho, Cul, Uxmal
    • Tabi
    • Odor
    • Path
    • Things
    • Hail
    • Rainbow
    • Anteater
    • Shade
    • Perhaps
  • 8. The Feathered Serpent
    • The Last Story of the Feathered Serpent
    • Colas (with Mayan transcription)
  • 9. Discussion
    • Works Cited

An Epoch of Miracles Oral Literature of the

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/1983
      ISBN13: 9780292735934, 978-0292735934
      ISBN10: 0292735936

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set of translations from the oral literature of the Yucatec Maya.

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword, by Dennis Tedlock
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Introduction
        • The Mayan Tradition
        • The Yucatec Maya
        • Speaking Mayan
        • Yucatec Mayan Ethnopoetics
        • Dialogue
        • Oral Features of Performance in Translation
        • Yucatec Mayan Oral Literature
      • 2. Ancient Conversations
        • Origin Stories in the Form of Lessons
        • Conversations in Mayan
        • Conversations among People
        • Big Things
        • How Just One Poor Man Lives
        • Things That Happen to You
        • The Old Lady of Mani
        • Stories about the Ancient Times
        • Where the Sacred Corn Seed Was Taken, I
        • Where the Sacred Corn Seed Was Taken, II
        • The Epoch of Miracles
        • The Story of the Hunchbacks (with Mayan transcription)
        • Santo Muerte
        • Jesus Christ
      • 3. Counsels
        • Narratives about Mayan Political History
        • The History of Don Francisco Xiu
        • The First Thing I Said to Dr. Morley
        • The Patron, I
        • The Story of Venancio Puc
        • The Patron, II
        • Divination and Signs
        • Signs, I
        • Signs, II
      • 4. Secrets
        • Two Deer Stories
        • The Man Who Was Such a Hunter
        • The Deer Secret
        • A Secret about Rainfall
        • The Owners of Rain (with Mayan transcription)
        • An Orpheus Story
        • A Person of the Milpa and an Evil Thing and a Priest and a Small Friend
        • Frightening Things and Wizards
        • Just Things That Frighten One
        • Wizards
      • 5. Stories
        • A Story about Mistaken Identity
        • San Antonio
        • A Story about a Trickster and a Priest
        • Ahau
        • A Story about a Vulture’s Clothes
        • A Vulture, a Dove, and a Squirrel
        • A Story about an Unusual Marriage
        • A Person and a Vulture
        • A Story about an Attempt to Ward off Death
        • Saint Death
        • A Story about Heroic Adventures
        • The Seven Towers of Marble
      • 6. The Milpa Story
        • The Story of the Milpa
        • A Milpero
      • 7. Wordplay
        • Riddles
        • A Song
        • The Armadillo
        • Jokes
        • The Joke about the Anniversary
        • The Joke about the Woman and Her Children
        • The Joke about an Old Man Who Went to Mérida for a Year
        • Bird Lore
        • The Sacred Mockingbirds
        • Tasapatan
        • A Dove
        • The Woodpecker
        • The Thrush
        • The Cardinal
        • Definitions
        • Ho, Cul, Uxmal
        • Tabi
        • Odor
        • Path
        • Things
        • Hail
        • Rainbow
        • Anteater
        • Shade
        • Perhaps
      • 8. The Feathered Serpent
        • The Last Story of the Feathered Serpent
        • Colas (with Mayan transcription)
      • 9. Discussion
        • Works Cited

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