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Traditions/Mesoamerican Mythology
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Mesoamerican Mythology

Maya, Aztec/Nahua, Popol Vuh handling, calendars, creator figures, underworld journeys, and colonial-era records.

MesoamericaAncient onward3 readable texts1 indexed source
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Popol Vuh

Mesoamerican MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

A public-domain Popol Vuh edition for creation, flood, hero-twin, and underworld comparison.

K'iche'· Precolonial oral/textual tradition recorded in colonial-era manuscript; public-domain English edition

Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans

Mesoamerican MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Twenty ancient Nahuatl hymns to the Aztec gods, recorded in the sixteenth century by Sahagun and translated with commentary by Daniel G. Brinton in 1890. Among the very few surviving liturgical texts of pre-conquest Mexico.

Classical Nahuatl· Pre-1519 oral hymns, recorded c. 1547-1585 CE

The Annals of the Cakchiquels

Mesoamerican MythologyLegend / Oral Tradition

The native chronicle of the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala: creation and migration legends from Tulan, tribal history, and annals continuing into the Spanish period. Translated by Daniel G. Brinton in 1885 as volume VI of his Library of Aboriginal American Literature.

Kaqchikel (Cakchiquel Maya)· c. 1571-1604 CE, recording much older oral tradition
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Popol Vuh

mythic textK'iche' Maya / colonial-era manuscript
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