Kidnapped to the Underworld Volume 95
Memories of Xibalba
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2024
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
978-0-8165-5259-7 (ISBN)
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
978-0-8165-5259-7 (ISBN)
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Written by Víctor Montejo, this story recounts the near-death experience of his grandfather, who fell gravely ill in Guatemala in the late 1920s but survived to tell his family and community what he witnessed of the afterlife. Montejo illustrates Guatemala’s unique religious syncretism, exploring Catholicism and Indigenous Maya spirituality.
VÍctor Montejo’s story recounts the near-death experience of his grandfather, Antonyo Mekel Lawuxh (Antonio Esteban), who fell gravely ill in Guatemala in the late 1920s but survived to tell his family and community what he had witnessed of the afterlife.
Narrated from Antonio’s perspective, the reader follows along on a journey to the Maya underworld of Xibalba, accompanied by two spirit guides. Antonio traverses Xibalba’s levels of heaven and hell, encountering instructive scenes of punishment and reward: in one chapter, conquistadors are perpetually submerged in a pool of their victims’ blood; in another, the souls of animal abusers are forever unable to cross a crocodile-infested river. Infused with memory, the author illustrates Guatemala’s unique religious syncretism, exploring conceptions of heaven and hell shared between Catholicism and Indigenous Maya spirituality. In the tradition of both the Popol Vuh and the Divine Comedy, Montejo’s narrative challenges easy categorization—this is a work of family history, religious testimony, political allegory, and sacred literature.
VÍctor Montejo’s story recounts the near-death experience of his grandfather, Antonyo Mekel Lawuxh (Antonio Esteban), who fell gravely ill in Guatemala in the late 1920s but survived to tell his family and community what he had witnessed of the afterlife.
Narrated from Antonio’s perspective, the reader follows along on a journey to the Maya underworld of Xibalba, accompanied by two spirit guides. Antonio traverses Xibalba’s levels of heaven and hell, encountering instructive scenes of punishment and reward: in one chapter, conquistadors are perpetually submerged in a pool of their victims’ blood; in another, the souls of animal abusers are forever unable to cross a crocodile-infested river. Infused with memory, the author illustrates Guatemala’s unique religious syncretism, exploring conceptions of heaven and hell shared between Catholicism and Indigenous Maya spirituality. In the tradition of both the Popol Vuh and the Divine Comedy, Montejo’s narrative challenges easy categorization—this is a work of family history, religious testimony, political allegory, and sacred literature.
VÍctor Montejo is professor emeritus of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis. His previous books include Popol Vuh: A Sacred Book of the Maya; Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Identity, Representation, and Leadership; El Q’anil: Man of Lightning; Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History; and Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures. Sean S. Sell is co-editor and translator of Chiapas Maya Awakening: Contemporary Poems and Short Stories, and translator of Ch’ayemal nich’nabiletik / Los hijos errantes / The Errant Children: A Trilingual Edition. Sell has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Davis, where he is currently a professor.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Sun Tracks |
| Übersetzer | Sean S. Sell |
| Zusatzinfo | 6 b&w illustrations, 1 map |
| Verlagsort | Tucson |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8165-5259-2 / 0816552592 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8165-5259-7 / 9780816552597 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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