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The ancient Maya

1983
Discusses the Mayan culture, its discovery by Spaniards, and its eventual collapse, and describes the ruins existing today.

White flower

a Maya princess
2005
A retelling of a traditional folktale, in which a jealous Maya king who can control the forces of nature orders a poverty-stricken prince to perform several impossible tasks or suffer punishment, unaware that the prince has an ally in his beautiful daughter, White Flower, who also holds power over the natural world.

Heart of a jaguar

1997
Balam, a Mayan boy struggling to achieve manhood, participates in fasts, prayers, and rituals to appease the gods and bring rain to his village.

Resurrection

2006
Presents a sequel to "Domain" based on the Mayan Popul Vulmyth, in which twins Jacob and Immanuel, born with post human genes, join together to resurrect their father, Michael, who was working to halt the alien Armageddon predicted for 2012, and defeat their evil counterpart Lilith, who yearns to open the gates of Hell.

Cuckoo

a Mexican folktale = Cuc? : un cuento folkl?rico mexicano
2000
A traditional Mayan tale which reveals how the cuckoo lost her beautiful feathers.

Sacred monkey river

a canoe trip with the gods
2000
Christopher Shaw chronicles the experiences he had while exploring the rivers of the Mexican and Guatemalan borders.

Ancient Mexico

the history and culture of the Maya, Aztecs, and other pre-Columbian peoples
2006
Chronicles the histories of the different cultures that lived in Mexico between the middle of the second millennium B.C. and the sixteenth century A.D.

The night the moon fell

a Maya myth
2009
When the moon falls into the ocean, it rises again with the aid of fish.

Popol vuh

a sacred book of the Maya
1999
A retelling of the Sacred Book of the Maya, providing an account of how the world was created; telling of the mythic creatures who battled against the Underworld Lords of Xib'alb'a; describing the creation of man from corn; and listing the line of K'iche' kings up to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.

Starfields

2011
Rosalba, a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in a rural Mexican village, watches as people destroy the environment around her, and when she hears that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012, Rosalba dreams of an ancient Mayan boy who hints at a way she can help.

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