title: Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book of The Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings
author:  Dennis Tedlock 
description: <i>"Popol Vuh</i> is one of the great books about the creation of the world. It is the Mayan Bible."<i>Carlos Fuentes</i><br /><br /><i>"</i>The volume is required reading for everyone seriously interested in Native American literature or in Meso-American cultural history. Its publication is a major event." <i>The</i><i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /><br />"Dennis Tedlock's splendid version...[is] the work of a brilliant anthropologist who is also a true 'poet of performance,'himself trained by a native Quich master....Superb notes and glossary...An event of quite exceptional importance." William Arrowsmith, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emory University<br /><br />"Tedlock's translation is sensitive, precise, and illuminating. It will greatly help the <i>Popol Vuh</i> achieve its rightful place as a masterpiece of religious writing, familiar to all those who seek a message that transcends ordinary concerns."Vine Deloria, Jr., author of<i>Custer Died for Your Sins</i>
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  A Groom of One’s Own
  
  Maya Rodale
  
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  Dedication
  
  This book is dedicated exclusively to my Lord Tony, Baron of Pinner, Viscount
  of Kentish Town, Earl of the Eastern Marches, Protector of the Borderlands,
  and groom of my own.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [Dedication](index_split_002.html#filepos674)
  
  [Prologue](index_split_004.html#filepos7609)
  
  [Chapter 1](index_split_005.html#filepos24821)
  
  [Chapter 2](index_split_006.html#filepos36072)
  
  [Chapter 3](index_split_007.html#filepos53534)
  
  [Chapter 4](index_split_008.html#filepos68499)
  
  [Chapter 5](index_split_009.html#filepos84682)
  
  [Chapter 6](index_split_010.html#filepos110982)
  
  [Chapter 7](index_split_011.html#filepos132344)
  
  [Chapter 8](index_split_012.html#filepos154049)
  
  [Chapter 9](index_split_013.html#filepos175729)
  
  [Chapter 10](index_split_014.html#filepos184450)
  
  [Chapter 11](index_split_015.html#filepos202444)
  
  [Chapter 12](index_split_016.html#filepos210376)
  
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