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Popol Vuh
"The Spanish authorities realized that preserving a record of the literary heritage of the Aztecs constituted an intolerable danger to their own political and religious domination of the region. By suppressing cultural memory, missionaries could more effectively extirpate it from the life of the people they sought to convert to Christianity.
The suppression of indigenous culture was far more difficult among the Maya who did not have to rely on the spoken word to preserve their literary heritage. More than fifteen hundred years prior to the Spanish conquest, the Maya developed a sophisticated hieroglyphic script capable of recording complex literary compositions, both on folded screen codices made of bark paper as well as texts incised on more durable stone or wood. The importance of preserving written records was a hallmark of Maya culture as witnessed by the thousands of known hieroglyphic inscriptions, many more of which are still being discovered in the jungles of southern Mexico and northern Central America. "
"THE PRIMORDIAL WORLD
THIS IS THE ACCOUNT of when all is still silent and placid.
All is silent and calm.
Hushed and empty is the womb of the sky.
THESE, then, are the first words, the first speech. There is not yet one person, one animal, bird, fish, crab, tree, rock, hollow, canyon, meadow, or forest. All alone the sky exists. The face of the earth has not yet appeared. Alone lies the expanse of the sea, along
with the womb of all the sky. There is not yet anything gathered together. All is at rest.Nothing stirs. All is languid, at rest in the sky. There is not yet anything standing erect.Only the expanse of the water, only the tranquil sea lies alone.
There is not yet anything that might exist. All lies placid and silent in the darkness, in the night."
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