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Ch ul Mut Sacred Bird Messengers of the Chamula Maya
by [Méndez Pérez, Maruch, Rus, Diane]
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Tsotsil-Maya elder, curer, singer, and artist Maruch Méndez Pérez began learning about birds as a young shepherdess climbing trees and raiding nests for eggs to satisfy her endless hunger. As she grew into womanhood and apprenticed herself to older women as a curer and seer, the natural history of birds she learned so roughly as a child expanded to include ancestral Maya beliefs about birds as channels of communication with deities in the spirit world who had dominion over human lives. In these testimonies dictated to her lifelong friend, anthropologist Diane Rus, Méndez Pérez describes her years of dreams, instruction, and experience. Her narrative sheds light on the basic values of her Chamula culture and cosmovision and has remarkable parallels to concepts of the ancient Maya as interpreted by scholars.
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- University of New Mexico Brand
- Nov 1, 2023 Pub Date:
- 9780826365132 ISBN-13:
- 0826365132 ISBN-10:
- 336.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8.75 in * 1 in * 5.75 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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