[Aztlan] Popol Vuh translation questions

[ECOLING at aol.com]

Allen Christenson has been incredibly generous with his work on the
Popol Vuh.

Over the past year and some, I have worked on various ways in
which we might approach a more accurate translation of parts of the 
Popol Vuh.   

For the first parts, the beginning through the defeat of "7 Macaw",
I now have an electronic and print version of it, lines 1-1720,
which I am distributing free of charge (though of course with limited time).  
 
Details of contents below.

I will bring a CD and a "Disk-Go" (cigarette-lighter-sized) memory stick, 
so hopefully it can transfer to any computer on the spot.

Those who *will want to make use of it during* their work at the Maya
Meetings in Austin this year, please let me know now -- 
also whether you will have a computer with you, 
or whether you can only use a printed version then.

If you would like a copy, but will not be *actively* using it *in* Austin,
please let me know that too.

Please no secondary copies.   Get all copies directly from the author,
since it may be under continuous change during some parts of 2007
and 2008, and I don't want older copies getting distributed instead
of newer ones.

The document is two MSWord .doc files,
one for K'iché' and one for English.
But they are intended to be printed so the result displays them 
in facing-page format, K'iché' on the left, English on the right,
arranged to reveal structural parallels, and revealing sentence 
structure to the maximum extent I could figure out how to do it 
with such a display.   There is no mechanical application of "couplets"
which would fragment sentences.   Rather, the structures are much
more varied, depending on the specific contents and grammar of
the original.   Footnotes explain the reasoning
for some of the more significant changes to the translation,
which I hope and believe are at least mostly more accurate
than what we have had in the past.

Obviously, progress in this field depends on a large number of
people who have worked on the problems in the past.
It will be the same in the future.

Best wishes,
Lloyd Anderson
Ecological Linguistics
PO Box 15156
Washington DC 20003
ecoling at aol.com


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