Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico(English, Paperback, Leon-Portilla Miguel)

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Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico(English, Paperback, Leon-Portilla Miguel) is written by Leon-Portilla Miguel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0806119748 (ISBN 10) and 9780806119748 (ISBN 13).

This volume presents ancient Mexican myths and sacred hymns, lyric poetry, rituals, drama, and various forms of prose, accompanied by informed criticism and comment. The selections come from the Aztecs, the Mayas, the Mixtecs and Zapotecs of Oaxaca, the Tarascans of Michoacan, the Otomis of central Mexico, and others. They have come down to us from inscriptions on stone, the codices, and accounts written, after the coming of Europeans, of oral traditions. It is Miguel Leon-Portilla's intention ""to bring to contemporary readers an understanding of the marvelous world of symbolism which is the very substance of these early literatures."" That he has succeeded is obvious to every reader.