Guatemala
K'iche' Highlands
A geographic entry point for the K'iche' Popol Vuh tradition. Loreveil treats the text as culturally specific, not as a generic Mesoamerican creation story.
K'iche' Popol Vuh traditionHeroic sacred narrative
The Hero Twins
The Popol Vuh cycle follows the Hero Twins through contests with the powers of Xibalba, where wit, performance, death, and return reshape an earlier family defeat.
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The People Made from Maize
In the Popol Vuh, successful human creation follows earlier failed attempts and is finally associated with maize, a substance central to K'iche' life and the narrative's account of humanity.
Read the entry →Place records are discovery aids. Traditions can span regions, languages, migrations, and modern political borders.