Holley Moyes is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Merced, and author of Sacred Darkness: A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title selection.Allen J. Christenson is professor of Pre-Columbian studies at Brigham Young University and the author of Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community, a two-volume critical edition of the Popol Vuh, and The Burden of the Ancients.Frauke Sachse is program director of Pre-Columbian Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and coauthor of Maya Daykeeping: Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala.

“This book brings together some of the very best scholars who have been working on the subject of Maya religion, all of whom are deeply familiar with the Popol Vuh. Their perspectives on this, a great Indigenous American scripture, vary in interesting and worthwhile ways. The transcendent ideas narrated in the Popol Vuh, these authors collectively show, stand not only with those of their compatriots in Mesoamerica but with religious experience as human sustenance and moral ground.”—David Freidel, Washington University in St. Louis"This volume brings together stimulating and critical studies of the continuity of Popol Vuh mythology from very different perspectives and raises key questions about the significance and interpretation of colonial-era original sources for the interpretation of pre-Hispanic religion and cosmology."—Journal of Anthropological Research

Holley Moyes is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Merced, and author of Sacred Darkness: A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title selection.Allen J. Christenson is professor of Pre-Columbian studies at Brigham Young University and the author of Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community, a two-volume critical edition of the Popol Vuh, and The Burden of the Ancients.Frauke Sachse is program director of Pre-Columbian Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and coauthor of Maya Daykeeping: Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala.

“This book brings together some of the very best scholars who have been working on the subject of Maya religion, all of whom are deeply familiar with the Popol Vuh. Their perspectives on this, a great Indigenous American scripture, vary in interesting and worthwhile ways. The transcendent ideas narrated in the Popol Vuh, these authors collectively show, stand not only with those of their compatriots in Mesoamerica but with religious experience as human sustenance and moral ground.”—David Freidel, Washington University in St. Louis"This volume brings together stimulating and critical studies of the continuity of Popol Vuh mythology from very different perspectives and raises key questions about the significance and interpretation of colonial-era original sources for the interpretation of pre-Hispanic religion and cosmology."—Journal of Anthropological Research

Holley Moyes is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Merced, and author of Sacred Darkness: A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title selection.Allen J. Christenson is professor of Pre-Columbian studies at Brigham Young University and the author of Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community, a two-volume critical edition of the Popol Vuh, and The Burden of the Ancients.Frauke Sachse is program director of Pre-Columbian Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and coauthor of Maya Daykeeping: Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala.

“This book brings together some of the very best scholars who have been working on the subject of Maya religion, all of whom are deeply familiar with the Popol Vuh. Their perspectives on this, a great Indigenous American scripture, vary in interesting and worthwhile ways. The transcendent ideas narrated in the Popol Vuh, these authors collectively show, stand not only with those of their compatriots in Mesoamerica but with religious experience as human sustenance and moral ground.”—David Freidel, Washington University in St. Louis"This volume brings together stimulating and critical studies of the continuity of Popol Vuh mythology from very different perspectives and raises key questions about the significance and interpretation of colonial-era original sources for the interpretation of pre-Hispanic religion and cosmology."—Journal of Anthropological Research