In the Images of World Literature slideshow, you saw ancient images inspired by Popol Vuh. Here at Connections, you can find modern interpretations, analyses, and performances of the story.
Movies/Popular Interpretations/TV/Performance
- German film director Werner Herzog used Popol Vuh to create the first chapter of his 1971 movie Fata Morgana.
http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Darkness-Morgana-Eugen-Montagnes/dp/B000059PPP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1272554131&sr=1-1 - Performance artist Cherrie Moraga's play Heart of the Earth: A Popol Vuh Story retells the creation story from a feminist point of view.
http://www.cherriemoraga.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49:heart-of-the-earth-a-popol-vuh-story&catid=43&Itemid=58
In Moraga's book, The Hungry Woman, she discusses Popol Vuh.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Hungry-Woman/Cherrie-L-Moraga/e/9780970534408 - Listen to free podcasts about the Popol Vuh from Dr. Rex Koontz of the University of Houston.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/art-history-podcasts-popol/id139883719
- See images from Patricia Amlin's 1988 movie Popol Vuh.
http://www.nativeamericanfilms.org/popolvuh.html
Learn more about it the film.
http://www.berkeleymedia.com/catalog/berkeleymedia/films
/native_american_studies
/popol_vuh_the_creation_myth_of_the_maya_spanish_version
Watch part of the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMo0-kEFis
- See Mayan archeological sites and hear a discussion of the collapse of their civilization in program eight from the series Out of the Past. http://www.learner.org/resources/series45.html
Art
- See the exhibits at the Museo Popol Vuh in Guatemala (in Spanish).
http://www.popolvuh.ufm.edu/index.php/P%C3%A1gina_Principal - Mayan Artist Carlotta Giangualano has paintings inspired by Popol Vuh.
http://www.mayamystics.com - Ancient Mayan illustrations of scenes from the story, painted on vases, are on display at Maya-Archeology.org.
http://www.maya-archaeology.org/Gods_Mayan_pantheon
/Mayapolychromevase_rollout.html
