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Gods and goddesses of the ancient Maya

Gives the history of the principal gods and goddesses of the ancient Mayans, including Hunab Ku, Itzamna, Ix Tab, and Ah Puch.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fisher, Leonard Everett
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Holiday House, c1999.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Maya gods > Juvenile nonfiction. Maya goddesses > Juvenile nonfiction. Mayas > Religion > Juvenile nonfiction. Indians of Central America > Religion > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Gives the history of the principal gods and goddesses of the ancient Mayans, including Hunab Ku, Itzamna, Ix Tab, and Ah Puch.
Item Description:	Page numbering in Mayan numbers.
Physical Description:	[33] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [33]).
ISBN:	0823414272
Author Notes:	Leonard Everett Fisher is a well-known and prolific author and illustrator of children's books. He has also written for adults and created illustrations for magazines. In addition, Fisher was dean of the Whitney School of Art and a visiting professor at a number of schools. Fisher was born in 1927 in the Bronx, New York, and started to draw as a small child. After graduating from high school, he studied at Brooklyn College and then entered the army where he worked with a mapmaker. He holds a B.F.A. and a M.F.A. from Yale University. The first book that Fisher illustrated was The Exploits of Xenophon, written by Geoffrey Household and published in 1955. Fisher then illustrated and wrote numerous books himself. He is well known for the Colonial Americans series, for the Nineteenth-Century America series for young adults, and for many other nonfiction works. He has written two works for adults-Masterpieces of American Painting (1985) and Remington and Russell (1986). (Bowker Author Biography)