{"product_id":"2206080","title":"The Mystery of the Mayan Hieroglyphs: The Vision of an Ancient Tradition","description":"xv, 247 pp. \"...the story of Mayan hieroglyphic writing remembered and interpreted by a contemporary Mayan Indian, don Pablo Balam, working with a young Anglo-Peruvian writer, Richard Luxton. Pablo Balam's words are the only explanation of Mayan sacred writing given to outsiders since the pre-Columbian culture was repressed by the Spanish invaders. The classic Maya of a thousand years ago cast their wisdom and vision, their History of the Future, into hundreds of powerful, enigmatic, hieroglyphs--mysterious signs which they carved in stone and painted in their sacred scriptures. The real meaning and purpose of this writing has, until now, remained hidden from Western eyes, its only readers anonymous Indians deep in the jungles of Central America. Because the mysterious hieroglyphs can only be read shamanically, The Mystery of the Mayan Hieroglyphs is the tale of an initiation into a shamanic way of seeing secretly continued in the Yucatan and elsewhere in spite of four hundred years of European persecution. ...the story of a neglected people living in the shadows of a majestic past--a people about to speak to us for the first time.\"","brand":"Harper \u0026 Row Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12596127498310,"sku":"2206080","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2206080.jpg?v=1571424247","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/2206080","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}