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Popol Vuh By Christenson Sparknotes

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The book Popol Vuh by Allen J. Christenson is about the creation of the world and its first inhabitants and how the gods created the first animals so that Gucumatz and Tepeu would have someone worship them, but then realized the animals were unable to speak and therefore could not worship them. After that Christenson mentions the Hero twins and also the story of the Quiche noble family dynasties. Hunahpu and Xbalanque were the sons of Hun Hunahpu and Xquic, a goddess or maiden of the lords of the Maya underworld. The most important idea of the Popol Vuh is the Hero Twins' use of trickster tales because the words are taken as wisdom for younger generations, the Hero Twins want revenge for their father's death and want to defeat the god unlike

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