The Popol Vuh: Central American epic that survived Spanish conquest
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What Happened to the Maya Languages After the Spanish Arrived in Central America?
After the spanish asion, missionaries came along and tried to evangelize the maya population. And they did that in the min languages, because that was more effective than trying to teach all my people spanish. In that context, kiche elids were exposed to aphrobetic writing and learned how to use that script to write their own language. A century or so later, a spanish priest named francisco himenes arrived in the guatamalan town of chichicaste nanga which is your town, yesel. He probably started work on what we now know as the popol woch.
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