The Popol Vuh Revisited: A Comparison With Modern Chamula Narrative Tradition

Resumen

It is hardly noteworthy to observe still another case in which folklore behaves with remarkable conservatism over the centuries. What, one might ask, makes it interesting that a contemporary Maya Indian community in southern Mexico preserves much of what we believe to have been in the oral tradition of the Ancient Maya? I believe that the comparison here explored IS of more than passing interest, for it deals with perhaps the best known Amerindian Classic, the Popol Vuh, of the Ancient Quiche Maya.