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James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (Lewis Spence) was a poet, journalist, and folklorist.
Francísco Ximénez was a Dominican priest credited for transcribing the Mayan Pupul Vuh document.
Lewis Spence's long "Popol Vuh" piece from 1908 is one of the earliest expressions of interest in the Mayan collection of myths and legends. Spence was an occult folklorist and journalist who likely helped bring attention to the Father Francisco Ximénez manuscript from ca. 1700-1703; which, by 1947, would result in serious scholarly interest in the work.
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Myth
Deities first created the world and made humans from clay, then wood. These humans were emotionless and destroyed by the deities in a flood, who turn them into monkeys. Later, the first four people are made and named after the Jaguar animal.
Belief system
Mayan religion refers to the spiritual beliefs and customs of some indigenous people from Mesoamerica, mainly Mexico and Guatemala.
It looks like only the main myth was referenced in this work.
It looks like only the main belief system was referenced in this work.
Spence, Lewis. "The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kiches of Central America," Popular Studies in Mythology Romance & Folklore, no. 16 (New York, NY: AMS Press, 1972): 210-271. [Reprint of first edition: London, England: David Nutt, 1908]
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