El Kanil, Man of Lightning: A Legend of Jacaltenango
by Victor Montejo, Wallace Kaufman
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The legend of El Q'anil, the "Man of Lightning," stands alongside such classic Maya literary artifacts as Popol Vuh and Chilam Balam but has been preserved only through the oral tradition of the Jakaltek Maya.In this tale, the young man Xhuwan Q'anil brings lightning to his people in order to save them from destruction.Tags
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Victor Montejo is Associate Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of El Q'anil: The Man of Lightning, Testimony: The Death of a Guatemalan Village, The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables, and Sculpted Stones: Poems.
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Wallace Kaufman, a real estate developer and appraiser, is also an award-winning real estate writer. He lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina
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