Incantations of Mayan Women Tapa blanda - 2005

Chiapas Mexico: Taller Lenateros, 2005. (MEX) This is the second edition after the first edition which was limited to 200 numbered copies. No markings, a touch to rubbing to the spine edges, Near Fine; no dust jacket as published but missing the slipcase. Hardcover with 3 dimension cast of mask; 295pp, B&W silk-creened illustration by various artists. Text is in English with the poems presented in Tzotzil with the English gtranslation. These incations are from the highlands of Chiapas in southern Mexico. The Tzotzil authors claim that their spells and songs were given to them by the ancestors, the First Fathermothers, who keep the Great Book in which all the words were written down. "The three-dimensional cover, cast from recycled cardboard, corn silk, and coffee, represents the Mayan earth goddess Kaxail. Her eyes open onto handmade endpaper blackened by soot and studded with palm fronds. . . . Incantations is the product of a 20-year effort to compile a kind of modern Mayan codex in… Leer más