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    Popol Vuh (also Popul Vuh or Pop Vuj) is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, one of the Maya peoples who also...
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  • Popol Vuh (German: [pɔpl̩ vuː]) were a German musical collective founded by keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1969 together with Frank Fiedler (sound design)...
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  • Nosferatu is the eleventh album by Popol Vuh and was released as the original motion picture soundtrack of Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht by director Werner...
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  • Popol Vuh is a work of mythology and history of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala. Popol Vuh may also refer to: Popol Vuh (band), an ambient/krautrock musical...
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    bath, etc. The following more encompassing themes can be discerned. The Popol Vuh describes the creation of the earth by a group of creator deities, as...
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  • Popol Vuh, later known as Popol Ace, was a 1970s Norwegian progressive rock band from Oslo, that became popular in the 1970s Norwegian rock scene with...
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    The Museo Popol Vuh (Popol Vuh Museum) is home to one of the major collections of Maya art in the world. It is located on the campus of the Universidad...
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  • the Moog synthesizer, and was a founding member of the Krautrock band Popol Vuh. Born on 23 February 1944, to an affluent Bavarian family,: 187  on the...
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  • German multi-instrumentalist who played a pivotal role in Krautrock band Popol Vuh, was a member of the German group Gila and is currently Amon Düül II's...
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  • They also used similar word, sentence, and rhythmic structure to the Popol Vuh to create similarities between the texts. In the early 1980s, the government...
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  • Cabrakan (category Characters from the Popol Vuh)
    Vucub-Caquix and the brother of Zipacna. He serves as a minor character in the Popol Vuh, where the Maya Hero Twins defeat him. He has been called the Maya equivalent...
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    their new name Popol Ace, to avoid confusion with the German rock band with the same name that also was popular in the 1970s. Popol Vuh is actually a Maya...
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  • Popol Vuh: The Creation of the Mayan World, Op. 44, is a symphonic poem in seven movements by the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera. The work, which...
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    Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol Vuh. Depending on the source, most names are either Yucatec or Kʼicheʼ. The...
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  • Nosferatu the Vampyre (category Films scored by Popol Vuh (band))
    score to Nosferatu the Vampyre was composed by the West German group Popol Vuh, who have collaborated with Herzog on numerous projects. Music for the...
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    Milky Way is viewed as the road to Xibalba. Xibalba is described in the Popol Vuh as a court below the surface of the Earth associated with death and with...
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    1861 he published another significant work: a French translation of the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Quiché (Kʼicheʼ) Maya people. He included a grammar...
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  • the god Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ-Maya, one of the creation gods of the Popol Vuh; his whole name translating as "Sovereign Plumed Serpent". The title has...
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    principal death god corresponds to the Aztec deity Mictlāntēcutli. The Popol Vuh has two leading death gods, but these two are really one: Both are called...
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    shown by their mythological traditions. According to the 16th-century Popol Vuh, the Hero Twins have maize plants for alter egos and man himself is created...
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    Camazotz (category Characters from the Popol Vuh)
    In the Late Post-Classic Maya mythology of the Popol Vuh, Camazotz (/kɑːməˈsɒts/ from Mayan /kama ˈsots’/) (alternate spellings Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz)...
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  • Vucub Caquix (category Characters from the Popol Vuh)
    a Kʼicheʼ-Maya myth preserved in an 18th-century document, entitled ʼPopol Vuhʼ. The episode of the demon's defeat was already known in the Late Preclassic...
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    Sub-1') depict elements of Maya creation mythology reminiscent of the Popol Vuh as well as of Yucatec cosmological traditions. The north wall mural consists...
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    (help) These excerpts from the Popol Vuh can be found in Christenson's recent translation or in any work on the Popol Vuh. Chinchilla Mazariegos, Oswaldo...
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  • radio. The most famous work in the Classical Kʼicheʼ language is the Popol Vuh (Popol Wuʼuj in modern spelling). The second most important work is The Title...
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  • surviving colonial period Kʼicheʼ language documents, together with the Popol Vuh. The document contains history and legend of the Kʼicheʼ people from their...
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    and the patron deity of the K'iche' Maya, Tohil, as described in the Popol Vuh. The name Tohil refers to obsidian and he was associated with sacrifice...
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    Maya Hero Twins (category Characters from the Popol Vuh)
    figures of a narrative included within the colonial Kʼicheʼ document called Popol Vuh, and constituting the oldest Maya myth to have been preserved in its entirety...
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    Aguirre, the Wrath of God (category Films scored by Popol Vuh (band))
    accompanying soundtrack was composed and performed by kosmische musik band Popol Vuh. The film is an international co-production between West Germany and Mexico...
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    African desert landscapes with a recitation of the Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh. Similarly, Herzog's film Lessons of Darkness (1992) matches Richard Wagner...
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