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1 - The tales that now no one believes: Leyendas de Guatemala
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Summary
Si algo anda mal en el mundo, seguramente no es culpa mía. Yo no soy enemigo del bien. Lo que yo hago es burlarme de lo que toma la apariencia del bien sin ser el bien, de lo que toma la apariencia de la belleza sin ser la belleza. Porque yo les destruyo sus falsos ídolos, porque yo les he dado mis dos lampos de claridad, la duda y la risa, los hornbres me maldicen.
Satan, in José Vasconcelos's Prometeo vencedor (30)Hombres de carne, campesinos de carne luchan contra lo español, que en la época de la independencia significa lo espiritual, lo importado de Europa, lo tradicional, el Dios ajeno, el concepto ajeno de sociedad y de derecho.
Miguel Angel Asturias, “Las lanzas coloradas,” El Impartial, June 30, 1931Make my guilt vanish,
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
do me a favor,
give me strength, give me courage
in my heart, in my head,
since you are my mountain and my plain;
may there be no falsehood and no stain,
and may this reading of the Popol Vuh
come out clear as dawn,
and may the sifting of ancient times
be complete in my heart, in my head;
and make my guilt vanish,
my grandmothers, grandfathers,
and however many souls of the dead there may be,
you who speak with the Heart of Sky and Earth,
may all of you together give strength
to the reading I have undertaken
Maya “daykeepers” prayer, quoted in Dennis Tedlock's Preface to the Popol Vuh- Type
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- Miguel Angel Asturias's Archeology of Return , pp. 16 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993