[Aztlan] Date of the Corn People?

[John Major Jenkins]

The situation at Izapa would still need to be integrated into these
considerations. A good recent summary of the very early expression of
Hero Twin mythos & themes at Izapa is Prudence Rice's Maya Calendar
Origins. In a nutshell, at Izapa we have at least 17 carved monuments
that can be related to themes recorded much later (1550s) as the Popol
Vuh. Some of these monuments, such as Izapa Stela 25, depict precise
recognizable events recorded in the 16th-century Popol Vuh. This, and
the other relevant Izapa monuments, are dated to 400 BC to 50 BC - with
the emphasis on the earlier period. This is pre-San Bartolo. The
situation is rather complex, in terms of various ethnic streams and
ideological transactions that flowed into post-Conquest highland
Guatemala. A great resource that examines this complex interaction of
Central Mexican, Yucatec, and Pacific coastal/Soconusco sources of
ideology is Ruud van Akkeren's Place of the Lord's Daughter.      

Returning to Robert's original question, Dennis Tedlock presentation an
interesting astronomical dating for the origin of the Hero Twin myth, in
his article in The Sky in Mayan Literature (ed., AA).

-JMJ


Blaze wrote:
In their book “Popol Vuh, The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiché Maya,”
basedon the translation by Adrián Recinos, Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G.
Morleydrew numerous correlations between places and people of Central
Mexico andthose mentioned in the Popol Vuh.

Kerr wrote:
I doubt that people from Central Mexico carved the stela of Izapa or
painted the vases of Naranjo or Calakmul.