Read  “Sacred Sustenance Maize Storytelling a Maya Sense of Place.pdf”  by Leah Alexandra Huff. Find the pdf under “files”.  

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 Consider:

• Storytelling is a type of public speaking.
• Stories, like Greek myths or the Bible, explain a social reality and are tools for communicating shared identities:
  • Popol Vuh and Chilam Balam are some of the ancient accounts that preserve the Maya origin.
• Cuentos (tales) Mayas are narrations to engaged in communal interactions, illustrate experiences, world-views and lives. They are not rigid.
  • Chol (Mayan) FolktalesLinks to an external site.: A Collection of Stories from the Modern Maya of Southern Mexico (you can access this Ebook through Oviatt Library database).
• Testimony witnesses and reflects on personal and collective autobiography, oral history and memoir; reflect social reality. 
• In this YouTube fragment of a Hollywood movie you may imagine the importance of Maya Storytelling to communal communication.