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Popul Vuh

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Popul Vuh
“Book of the People”, sacred book of certain Mayan tribes. [Mayan Religion: NCE 2191]


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Similarly, Ramon Ordonez y Aguiar posited the Mayan ruined city of Palenque had been a multiethnic international commercial hub bearing Moorish, Roman, Hebrew, and Egyptian influence; in addition it could be identified as the biblical city of Ophir (he also sought to prove the Maya Popul Vuh was a distorted copy of the Pentateuch).
Tedlock quotes from the Popul Vuh (which he has also translated): "`Their vision came all at once.
 
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