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The Ancient Maya (Myths of the World)
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ANCIENT MAYA
 
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A For MFN Nicole Schomp A
The author would like to thank Robert J. Sharer,
Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania,
for his valuable comments and careful reading of the manuscript.
Benchmark Books Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Road Tarrytown, New York 10591
www.marshallcavendish.us Text copyright ©2010 by Marshall Cavendish Corporation Map copyright © 2010 by Mike
Reagan. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means electronic or
mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission
from the copyright holders. All Internet sites were available and accurate when this book was sent to press. LIBRARY OF CON -
GRESS CATALOGING - IN - PUBLICATION DATA : Schomp, Virginia. The ancient Maya / by Virginia Schomp. p. cm. — (Myths of the
world) Summary: “A retelling of several important ancient Maya myths, with background information describing the his-
tory, geography, belief systems, and customs of the people” — Provided by the publisher. Includes bibliographical refer-
ences and index. ISBN 978-0-7614-4642-2 1. Maya mythology — Juvenile literature. 2. Maya cosmology — Juvenile
literature. I. Title. F1435.3.R3S36 2010 299.7'842013 — dc22 2008034956
EDITOR : Joyce Stanton
PUBLISHER : Michelle Bisson
PHOTO RESEARCH : Connie Gardner
ART DIRECTOR : Anahid Hamparian
SERIES DESIGNER : Michael Nelson
MAP : Mike Reagan
Cover photo by Banco del Atlantida Tegucigaipa/The Art Archive The photographs in this book are used by permission
and through the courtesy of: Art Archive: National Anthropological Museum Mexico, 1; Archaeological and Ethnological
Museum, Guatemala City, 10-11; Banco del Tegucigaipa, 21; SuperStock: age footstock, 93; Christie’s Images, 28-29; The
Image Works: © SSPL, 50, 53; Mary Evans Picture Library, 74; © British Museum/Werner Forman Archive/Topham, 80,
85; Corbis: Charles and Josetta Lenars, 7-8; Michele Westmorland, 18; Kimball Art Museum, 19; Atlantide Phototravel,
69, 70; Smithsonian Institution, 70; The Granger Collection: 32; Alamy: Robert Harding Picture Library, 34 (B); Zach
Holmes, 46; Mireille Vautier, 66; David Sanger, 87; The Bridgeman Art Library; Rain Forest, Malaysia, 1990 by Laila
Shaws/Private Collection, 12; The Olbatos Ravine, 1967 by Roberto Montenegro, Coleccion Banco National de Mexico,
Photo: Michel Zabe/AZA INBA, 15; Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico/Index, 17; Boltin Picture
Library, 24, 37, 62, 68; Deutsches Tapetenmuseum, Kassei, Germany/Museumlandschaft Hessen Kassel/Gabriele
Boessert, 35; The Creation of Man, page from Popul Vuh(w/c on paper) by Diego Rivera (1886-1957) Museo Casa Diego
Rivera (INBA) Guanajuato, Mexico, Index, © 2008 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av.
Cinco de Mayo No.2, Col Centro, Del Cuauhtemoc 06059, Mexico D.F.; Scarlet Macaws at a Maya Monument by Nigel
Hughes/Private Collection, 40, 42; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas/Museum purchase funded by One Great Night
in November 1988, 44; Jungle Parrot by Felicity House/Private Collection, 47; Lovina Ricefields with Lilies and
Frangipanni, Bali, 1996 by Hilary Simon/Private Collection, 48; Further Down The River - The Crocodile, 1982 by Peter
Wilson/Private Collection, 52; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Texas/Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment Fund, 54;
Dartmoor (w/c on paper) by Edward Burra (1905-76)/Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon, UK, 60; Owls illus-
tration from Bird Families by Maruice Burton published by Frederick Warne and Company 1962 by Kay Nixon (1895-
1988), 63; Making Tortillas, 1926 by Diego Rivera (1886-1957) University of California, San Francisco, CA/Index, © 2008
Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Av. Cinco de Mayo No.2, Col, Centro, Del.Cuauhtemoc
06059, Mexico, D.F., 65; Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Ethnologia, Guatemala City/ Jean-Pierre Courau, backcover;
Art Resource: Erich Lessing, 6, 20, 24 (B), 27, 33-34, 56, 57; Schalkwijk, Rivera, Diego (1866-1957) c Banco de Mexico
Trust. The Grinder (La molendera), 1926. Oil on canvas, 35 7/16 x 46 l/16in., 83; Rivera, Diego (1866-1957) © Banco
de Mexico Trust. Corn Festival (la fiesta del maiz), detail 1923-24. Mural court of Fiesta, Level 2 South Wall, 77; Rivera,
Diego (1866-1957) © Banco de Mexico Trust. Water, the Source of Life. The Beneficent Hands of Nature Bestow the
Gift of Water. Carcamo del Rio Lerma, 30; Rivera, Diego (1866-1957) © Banco de Mexico Trust. Sunset (from a series
of twenty painted in Acapulco). 1956. Oil and tempera on canvas 30 x 40 cm, 2-3; Rivera, Diego (1866-1957) © Banco
de Mexico Trust. Corn Harvest, 1923-24. Mural. Court of Fiestas, Level 1, South Wall, 78; SEF, 9, 61, 75. 81, 86; El
Hortelano (1953-) c 2008 Artists Rights Society(ARS), New York/VEGAP, Madrid Big Dipper No 1. 1997. Oil on can-
vas 75 x 75 cm, 55; Werner Forman, 23, 26, 89.
Printed in Malaysia
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Front cover:A Maya warrior
Half-title page:A clay figure of a Maya noble
Title page:A blazing sun sets over the Pacific Ocean, in a painting by the famous Mexican artist
Diego Rivera.
Back cover:A finely crafted vase from an ancient Maya site in Guatemala
 
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