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4 unusual facts about Popol Vuh


Adrián Recinos

It was he who made the first edition in Spanish of the Popol Vuh, based on his translation of the manuscript found in the Newberry Library, Chicago, the United States.

Al Gromer Khan

Concurrently, Khan engaged in a number of experimental projects, pioneering the proto-electronic music genre called Space music, together with Popol Vuh, Deuter and Amon Düül.

Santa Cruz del Quiché

Some think it likely that it was in Santa Cruz where a group of anonymous K'iche' nobles of the Nim Ch'okoj class transcribed the Popol Vuh, the sacred text of the Maya.

Stephen Alvarez

The Maya Underworld has roots in the Maya sacred book the Popol Vuh.


Cosmic Couriers

Cosmic Couriers released many important Krautrock titles by artists including Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel, Manuel Göttsching, Wallenstein, Popol Vuh, and others, including Walter Wegmüller's 'Tarot'.

Dogs in Mesoamerica

In the Popol Vuh, the K'iche' Maya creation story, dogs played important roles in certain events.

God Is My DJ

The partly instrumental concert God Is My DJ, which later was recorded in studio and released on Warner Music, comprises works by composers as diverse as Arvo Pärt, David Crosby, Popol Vuh, Gavin Bryars, Franco Battiato and Jane Siberry, French, Hungarian and Livonian traditionals as well as eleventh and fourteenth century hymns sung in Ancient Greek and Latin.

Maya Hero Twins

Many versions of the Twin Myth must have circulated among the Mayas, but the only one that survives in a written form is the Classical K'iche' version in the Popol Vuh.

The Maya Hero Twins are the central figures of a narrative included within the colonial K'iche' document called Popol Vuh, and constituting the oldest Maya myth to have been preserved in its entirety.


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