Nov 20 2020 67 mins
Dr. Tomas Jose Barrientos Quezada, Dean of the Department of Archeology at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, joins us to discuss the "Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings," including the evolutionary creation of humans, the hero twins who became Venus and the Sun, the dawn over all people, the god who promised fire in exchange for human blood, and the reverence in Mayan culture for nature as messengers of the Father and Mother of Creation.