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Автор: Lewis Spence
Год: 2010
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 50
ISBN: 9781409968658
The Popol Vuh (K'iche' for "Council Book" or "Book of the Community") is a book written in the Classical Quiche/Kiche language containing mythological narratives and a genealogy of the rulers of the Post-Classic Quiche kingdom of highland Guatemala. James Lewis Thomas Chalmbers Spence (1874- 1955) was a Scottish journalist, whose efforts as a compiler of Scottish folklore have proved more durable than his efforts as a poet and occult scholar. After graduating from Edinburgh University he pursued a career in journalism. In 1899 he married Helen Bruce. He was an editor at The Scotsman 1899-1906, editor of The Edinburgh Magazine for a year, 1904-05, then an editor at The British Weekly, 1906-09. In this time his interest was sparked in the myth and folklore of Mexico and Central America, resulting in his popularisation of the Mayan Popul Vuh, the sacred book of the Quiche Mayas (1908). He compiled A Dictionary of Mythology (1910 and numerous additional volumes). He wrote about Brythonic...
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