Description

Step into the world of 16th‑century Yucatán through a remarkable report compiled by a Spanish friar who lived among the Maya. The manuscript presents a detailed account of daily life, religious rituals, and the sophisticated Maya calendar, alongside the first known transcriptions of their hieroglyphic script. Accompanying the original Spanish text is a careful French translation, a concise grammar and vocabulary list, and a selection of historical documents that illuminate the broader context of early Mexican studies.

This listening experience offers more than a dry translation; the narrator guides you through vivid descriptions of market scenes, ceremonial gatherings, and the challenges of cross‑cultural understanding. The introductory essay, written by a 19th‑century French scholar, frames the work as a bridge between ancient American languages and European philology, stressing the importance of the Maya tongue in the grand tapestry of world linguistics. Such a blend of historical narrative and scholarly insight makes the audio both educational and surprisingly intimate.

Details

Full title

Relation des choses de Yucatan de Diego de Landa Texte espagnol et traduction française en regard, comprenant les signes du calendrier et de l'alphabet hiéroglyphique de la langue maya; accompagné de documents divers historiques et chronologiques, avec une grammaire et un vocabulaire abrégés français-maya, précédés d'un essai sur les sources de l'histoire primitive du Mexique et de l'Amérique Centrale, etc., d'après les monuments égyptiens, et de l'histoire primitive de l'égypte d'après les monuments américains par l'abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg

Language

Duration

~19 hours (1137K characters)

Series

Collection de documents dans les langues indigènes, pour servir a l'étude de l'histoire et de la philologie de l'Amérique ancienne, volume troisième

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Julia Miller, Carlo Traverso, The Internet Archive and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Release date

2019-05-18

Rights

Public domain in the USA.