Combining impeccable scholarship and literary elegance, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in a war that forever changed the face of European history.

These volumes include oral texts in a variety of genres from 16 Mayan languages. Each of the stories in this collection is presented with analytical glosses, making explicit the structure of the language and illustrating the richness of Mayan grammar as it is used in context. These volumes will be of interest to linguists specializing in Mayan, typologists, and aficionados of oral narrative, as well as to speakers and learners of Mayan languages.