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Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings by Dennis Tedlock
This volume can be divided into two parts. First is the introduction of the Popol Vuh; second, the translation of the work itself. It is...
Saturday, May 26, 2012
The Epic of Gilgamish: A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform by Stephen Langdon
This book provides a translation and analysis of a fragment of the South Babylonian version of the epic on a six-column tablet. The tablet was among Ashur-bani-pal's collection. I don't recommend this as a replacement for the complete and enhanced versions of the epic as this only includes a few parts of the epic. The transliteration is also incomplete because the author left out undecipherable and missing parts of the tablet. This is great as a supplementary reading material for those who wish to read more or study the epic.
Included are the introduction of the epic and the possible origin of its hero, photos of the tablet, and autograph plates.
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Note: I don't claim to be an expert in the mythology and religion of the six tribes featured here. My source for this information is Fay...
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Note: This is my final paper for Adv. Literary Theory and Criticism, one of my classes in MA in Literature. October 2015. I'm posting t...