Yucatan Before and After the Conquest Iiwcc Myrna Jamont " - Andy Griffith

" - Andy Griffith

From birth they were taught by their father to have cold hearts and no compassion

and when it\'s the killing kind

He gives a lively account of how popes are elected and bishops appointed

Yucatan Before and After the Conquest Iiwcc Myrna Jamont " - Andy GriffithIn 1562, de Landa conducted an 'Auto de f ' in Man where in addition to 5000 'idols, ' he burned 27 books in Maya writing. This one act deprived future generations of a huge body of Mayan literature. He culturally impoverished the descendents of the Mayas, and left only four codices for scholars to puzzle over. The document translated here is de Landa's apology, and one of the few remaining contemporary texts which describe pre conquest Mayan society,