Yucatan Before and After the Conquest and a man who outwits

and a man who outwits a dragon

Over 200 illustrations help clarify the ideas and applications in this volume

empty life

books on moss

books on b ` days

Yucatan Before and After the Conquest and a man who outwitsThese people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences. We found a great number of books in these letters and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took most grievously, and which gave them great pain. So writes Friar Diego de Landa in his Relacin De las cosas de Yucatan of 1566, the basic book in Maya