Reading the Popol Vuh brings to me a similar tragic sense as reading the work of Snorri Sturluson -- something lying at the terminus of a once rich heathen tradition -- a violent end (be it a bang or a whimper) at the hands of an ekarAkShasonnmAda. A mere glimpse of the rich
tradition leaving us hanging & wanting to know more but hitting the wall an extinction without fossilization. But what survives of the Maya tradition leaves us with a feel for how deep are the roots of natural religion& mythology in the history of human thought. By that very
realization it shows how utterly evil & pathological are the ekarAkShasa diseases of the mind and how every surviving heathen tradition should resist them. One can quickly glimpse some v.old elements like the origin mythologies, the wonder-working twin gods, nature of certain
ritual incantations. How can one who has studied the shruti not fail to see a kindred thought in their ritual observation of Venus at the rising of the sun (c.f. venas tat pashyat). This shows that motifs in our religion/mythosphere go back to an early time preceding the split of
the Beringians from the rest of the Inner Eurasians.
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