Description
The Quichés ruled from the city they built at the highland plains, to which they gave the splendid name K’umarcaaj, but which was known during the Maya world as Utatlán.
Robert M. Carmack re-creates the setting of this empire, and peoples it with the rulers, priests, warriors, allies, and travelers who gave it life. He describes the fall of Utatlán to the conquistadors, and the Quichés’ efforts to retain a semblance in their political structure and belief system. Drawing upon archaeological discoveries and native and Spanish written documents, Carmack has produced a work that is very important to working out the Quiché people and indispensable to a full appreciation of the immortal work the Popol Vuh, the “first book of the New World.”