Songs of Dzitbalché
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Songs of Dzitbalché
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The [Book of the] Songs of Dzitbalché, originally titled The Book of the Dances of the Ancients, is a Mayan book containing poetry. It is the source of almost all the ancient Mayan lyric poems that have survived, and is closely connected to the Books of Chilam Balam which are sacred books of the colonial Yucatec Maya. The sole surviving copy of the Songs of Dzitbalché was written in alphabetic Mayan in the 18th century. The author of the book identifies himself as Ah Bam, an elder of the town of
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