Mesoamerican Mythology: A Captivating Guide to Maya Mythology, Aztec Mythology, Inca Mythology, and Central American Myths (World Mythologies)

It is really fun and interesting

I read just the kindle sample, but I have to point out that the Inca are NOT part of Mesoamerica, which means "middle America." They were in South America.

I am still reading both books interested me on history

I read every book and loved. It was never too complicated. He keep my interest threw out the books, but tell great stories. There was never any dry reading

I had read previously that the Spanish had wiped out most of the cultural information in the name of the Catholic church so I was surprised that even this much mythology has survived. It was nice to read it back to back civilization by civilization. It states the sources of this mythology and under what circumstances it was written. Cool, interesting read.

Maya folklore is a piece of Mesoamerican folklore and includes the majority of the Maya stories in which represented powers of nature, gods, and the legends cooperating with these assume the fundamental jobs. The fantasies of the Pre-Hispanic time must be reproduced from iconography.

I received an advance copy of this book so that I could submit an early review. However, I volunteered to do early reviews because I really like the Captivating History series. The books are written on a wide variety of historical subjects. They are relatively short, but packed with information, so the reader can understand the subject without making a huge time commitment.This book is actually a compilation of four shorter books on Mayan, Aztec, Inca, and Central American mythology. Of course, mythology is not technically history but it adds context to the history of any culture. Besides, many of these stories are quite entertaining in their own right. Several of the Mayan myths center on “The Hero Twins” Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Many of those tales suggest that pride was considered a bad thing and the heroes often solved their problems or defeated their adversaries with cleverness or trickery. The Aztec stories have either of the gods Quetzalcoatl or Huitzilopochtli as the protagonists. Huitzilopochtli seems to have been central to their practice of ritual warfare and human sacrifice. The section that is a bit different is the Central American mythology, which is more of a collection of myths and fables from various tribes. Therefore, those stories are more standalone than the others.Overall, I found the book enjoyable and it’s interesting to see similarities and differences compared to Greek or Hebrew stories.

I assume I was getting a book on the myths of these civilizations but instead I got child stories from said civilizations. Like our Peter Pan story. Childhood stories. I wanted to learn about the myths. Bad title.

good

I found the book disappointing, pages cheap no pictures and everything about it was disappointing