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When in the 16th century, Spanish priests came to the Yucatan, they found hundreds of books and burned them. One of the chronicles of the ancient people had almost lost forever ... What remains to us of the written heritage of the ancient Maya? Fortunately, the Spanish Inquisition from bonfires miraculously survived four manuscripts of the Mayas. On the long strip of brown paper made ??from bast ficus and folded folds like a fan, hair brush, apply the mysterious signs and strange pictures. The path and the circumstances of moving the books from their homes in Europe are unknown. We only know the place of their current location. One manuscript of 74 pages is stored in Dresden (the so-called "Dresden Codex"). Its length is 3.56 meters, the page size - 20.5 x 9 cm from the existing codes of the Maya, this is the most beautiful and most ancient. He stands refined lines and amazing color. Pages Dresden Code Another manuscript, consisting of 112 pages, stored in Madrid ("Madrid Code"). Its length - 6 meters. She, too, is composed of folds, however, it has no beginning or end. in an even worse state of a fragment of a 24-page manuscript, found in the archives of the Paris library. "Paris Code" has a length of 1.45 meters, contains the text of 1600 characters, and numerous images of deities. fourth manuscript - the so-called "Grolier Codex" - a very poorly preserved and contains only fragmentary texts. There is no doubt that the content of all known manuscripts of the Maya - a priestly prayer that indicate what day and what to do sacrifice to the gods. At the heart of codes - the astrological calendar and the table on which the priests had predicted hours of the appearance of the sky of the planets. course, if the acts of vandalism have not purchased a medieval such a wide scope, there is still a much larger number of manuscripts. But fires are not incinerated memory and soul of the Indians. Much of what has been written in the books burned, remained in the oral tradition, and from there migrated to the new book. When hieroglyphic writing was forbidden by Spanish monks and ancient books burned, the Maya began to write his prophecies, myths, chronicles are not characters, and Latin letters. Thus, in the sixteenth century after the Conquest, there were books "Chilam Balam", telling about the past and the Mayan religion. So came to the present day the most important literary monument, the only product of the Mayan epic - "Popol Vuh" ("The Book of Peoples"). Apart from the codes entered in the distribution of a number of papers devoted to the writing of the ancient Indians.


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