LEADER 03877nam 22007094a 450 001 9910967396903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780870819964 010 $a0870819968 035 $a(CKB)1000000000816221 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000340226 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11252232 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340226 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10364951 035 $a(PQKB)10944254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039699 035 $a(OCoLC)472427578 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4071 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039699 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10333626 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL921554 035 $a(Perlego)2031532 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000816221 100 $a20081201d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMaya daykeeping $ethree calendars from highland Guatemala /$fJohn M. Weeks, Frauke Sachse, and Christian M. Prager 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBoulder, Colo. $cUniversity Press of Colorado$dc2009 215 $axii, 221 p. $cill., 1 map 225 1 $aMesoamerican worlds 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781607322467 311 08$a1607322463 311 08$a9780870819339 311 08$a087081933X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-217) and index. 327 $tThree K'iche'an divinatory calendars --$tCalendario de los Indios de Guatemala, 1685 --$tCalendario de los Indios de Guatemala, 1722 --$tCalendario de Vicente Hernandez Spina, 1854. 330 8 $aIn Maya Daykeeping, three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala - examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Titles of the Lords of Totonicapan - dating to 1685, 1722, and 1855, are transcribed in K'iche or Kaqchikel side-by-side with English translations. Calendars such as these continue to be the basis for prognostication, determining everything from the time for planting and harvest to foreshadowing illness and death. Good, bad, and mixed fates can all be found in these examples of the solar calendar and the 260-day divinatory calendar. The use of such calendars is mentioned in historical and ethnographic works, but very few examples are known to exist. Each of the three calendars transcribed and translated by John M. Weeks, Frauke Sachse, and Christian M. Prager - and housed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - is unique in structure and content. Moreover, except for an unpublished study of the 1722 calendar by Rudolf Schuller and Oliver La Farge (1934), these little-known works appear to have escaped the attention of most scholars. Introductory essays contextualize each document in time and space, and a series of appendixes present previously unpublished calendrical notes assembled in the early twentieth century. Providing considerable information on the divinatory use of calendars in colonial highland Maya society previously unavailable without a visit to the University of Pennsylvania's archives, Maya Daykeeping is an invaluable primary resource for Maya scholars. Mesoamerican Worlds Series 410 0$aMesoamerican worlds. 606 $aMaya calendar 606 $aMaya philosophy 606 $aMaya mythology 606 $aMayan languages$xWriting 615 0$aMaya calendar. 615 0$aMaya philosophy. 615 0$aMaya mythology. 615 0$aMayan languages$xWriting. 676 $a529/.3297842707281 700 $aWeeks$b John M$0144494 701 $aSachse$b Frauke$01807318 701 $aPrager$b Christian M$01807319 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967396903321 996 $aMaya daykeeping$94356961 997 $aUNINA