City Lights Books onix@onixsuite.com 20130217 eng

GCDS-9780872862104 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100202040 02 0872862100 03 9780872862104 15 9780872862104 BC 1 A01 Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno 2 B06 Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno lives in Massachusetts and teaches in the program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. 01 eng 104 01 <P>Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno writes in his introduction to Destruction of the Jaguar that ""The Books of Chilam Balam are the only principal surviving texts of the ancient Maya. Written in the Mayan language but in European script, they are generally considered to be transcriptions and recompilations from memory of material originally contained in the hieroglyphic books, all of which were apparently destroyed by the Spaniards . . . As they stand now, they are a curious and fascinating combination of prophecy, history, chronology, ritual and mythology."</P> <P>Here is an English translation that captures the unparalleled beauty of one of the great pre-Columbian masterpieces. This stirring, prophetic poetry haunts our own times.</P> 02 Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno writes in his introduction to Destruction of the Jaguar that ""The Books of Chilam Balam are the only principal surviving texts of the ancient Maya. Written in the Mayan language but in European script, they are generally... 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100202040/images/87286100202040L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100202040/images/87286100202040S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100202040 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19871001 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 19871001 01 02 5.95 USD