Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods

Sharonah Esther Fredrick teaches in the College of Charleston’s Department of Hispanic Studies. She is the Colonial Americas editor for Routledge Resources Online-The Renaissance World.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Cosmologies in Collision1. Political Ambivalence in the Popul Vuh and the Huarochiri Manuscript: Centuries of Theological Doubt2. Myth as a Cosmic Weapon: Questioning the Gods3. Rebellion and the Sovereignty Merry-Go-Round: Uprisings and Cyclical Notions of Time4. The Teachings and Ethics of the Huarochiri Manuscript and the Popul Vuh: Andean and Mayan LegaciesConclusion: Compassionate Rebellion as a Way of LifeNotesReferencesIndex

“Sharonah Fredrick’s comparative analysis of K’iche’ and Andean foundational thought in An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods goes beyond previous twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholarship while still taking into account that scholarship. The author is perhaps the only scholar whose training allows the comparison of these two sixteenth-century Indigenous texts put down on parchment more or less at the same time but in two distinct cultural and geographic Amerindian spaces.”-Thomas Ward, author of Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature “A contribution to scholarship in ancient Mesoamerica as well as the Andes.”-James L. Fitzsimmons, coeditor of Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands: Integration, Interaction, Dissolution