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WorksheetsPopol-Vuh Mayan Literature
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Popol Vuh encompasses a range of subjects that includes creation, ancestry, history, and ___________.
cosmology
war
communication
Popol-Vuh book account of the creation of living beings. _________ were created first, followed by humans.
Gods
Animals
Templeas
The first humans were made of earth and _____, but soaked up water and dissolved.
plants
jade
mud
The Father and Uncle of The Hero Twins, Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu, sons of Xmucane and Xpiacoc, are murdered at a ____________ in Xibalba.
ball game
combat
ceremony
Hun Hunahpu's head is placed in a calabash tree, where it spits in the hand of Xquiq, impregnating her.
TRUE
FALSE
Xquic leaves the _______ to be with her mother-in-law, Xmucane
underworld
congregation
place of Gods
The Temple of Inscriptions was specifically built as the funerary monument for K'inich Janaab' Pakal, ajaw or ruler of Palenque in the 7th century. Mark all apply.
Pakal was a ruler of Palenque in the 7th century, whose reign over 70 years.
The Temple of the Inscriptions has been significant in the study of the ancient Maya.
hieroglyphic text found on the Inscription Tablets, the impressive sculptural panels on the piers of the building, and the finds inside the tomb of Pakal
All of the above
Many versions of the legend of the ___________ Hunahpú and Xbalanqué circulated through the Mayan peoples.
Hero Twins
Hero Friends
Warrior Heroes
It is a sequence of man's relationship with the deity, described in the Popol-Vuh.
Humans are successfully created from Maize.
The gods give them morality in order to keep them loyal.
Later, they give them wives to make them content.
All of the above
Father Ximénez's manuscript contains the oldest known text of Popol Vuh. It is mostly written in parallel ________ and _______ as in the front and rear of the first folio pictured here.
Kiché/Portuguese
Kʼicheʼ/Spanish
Kʼicheʼ/Italian
