The Popul Vuh, translated as Book of the Council, Book of the People, and The Sacred Book, is a written account of the creation of the Mayan people. “Popol” is also popularly defined as “woven mat,” and “Vuh” (Vuj) as “book.” Thhis the book weaves together Mayan stories concerning the origin of the cosmos, traditions, and spiritual histories. It is considered by many Mayans as their equivalent to the Bible. A central aspect of the Popol Vu is the organisation of prescribed customs, rituals alongside the description of the cultural, mythical tales about the creators of the Mayan race. What is presented is a rich and elaborate social and historical text about the ways of being of a people unique medium of a numerical language.
Within the Mayan culture and society, the numbers moved in a kind of wave motion. The low numbers -1,2,3,4 are mild and soft, while the middle numbers -- 6, 7, 8, and 9 -- represent the days of balanced energy and power. The final days, 10 too 13, are deemed "too powerful” so much as to be potentially dangerous. Therefore, all major rituals are performed on the days of balanced power. What emerges Within this scheme of presenting a world order in terms of the numerical value of the day of the lunar calendar as well as female and Male deities is the presentation of the originality of the work as a single, long poem that takes a narrative form in describing the social and religious order of the ancient Mayans. It was only divided into separate books once it was translated into European languages.
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