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Mayan mythic text Jiang uses to reconstruct the religious worldview behind creation, sacrifice, obedience, and divine hierarchy.
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Popol Vuh
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Jiang uses the Popol Vuh as evidence for a belief system in which mythic sacrifice, divine creation, and obedience to gods shaped Mayan society and later influenced Aztec and Inca vulnerability.
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"...down this oral tradition okay and this book we call the Popol Vuh it translates into the book of the community and it's just..."
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"a few passages to figure out their underlying belief system and how it governs their society all right okay so this is a story..."
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"say hey look at us we can play this game where we can't cure ourselves we cut our heart and we come back alive..."
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