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    An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods
    Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript

    Sharonah Esther Fredrick (Author)

    9781496236753

    Hardback, published 20 August 2024

    348 pages, Index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.674 kg

    “Sharonah Fredrick’s comparative analysis of K’iche’ and Andean foundational thought in An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods goes beyond previous twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholarship while still taking into account that scholarship. The author is perhaps the only scholar whose training allows the comparison of these two sixteenth-century Indigenous texts put down on parchment more or less at the same time but in two distinct cultural and geographic Amerindian spaces.”-Thomas Ward, author of Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature
    “A contribution to scholarship in ancient Mesoamerica as well as the Andes.”-James L. Fitzsimmons, coeditor of Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands: Integration, Interaction, Dissolution

    This groundbreaking work in literature, cultural studies, and history compares the two greatest epics of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America: the Popul Vuh of the QuichÉ Maya of Guatemala and the Huarochiri Manuscript of Peru’s lower Andean regions.

    Preface

    Introduction: Cosmologies in Collision

    1. Political Ambivalence in the Popul Vuh and the Huarochiri Manuscript: Centuries of Theological Doubt

    2. Myth as a Cosmic Weapon: Questioning the Gods

    3. Rebellion and the Sovereignty Merry-Go-Round: Uprisings and Cyclical Notions of Time

    4. The Teachings and Ethics of the Huarochiri Manuscript and the Popul Vuh: Andean and Mayan Legacies

    Conclusion: Compassionate Rebellion as a Way of Life

    Notes

    References

    Index
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